propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural …

The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new … civil war, and the persistence of the battlefront along the "Gothic line" cutting through Northern-Central Italy. We find …

on Contributors -- Preface -- Part I -- 1 The Economic Origins and Dimensions of European Fascism -- 2 Banks and the Era … Entrepreneurs in the Era of Fascism: From the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship to the Franco Dictatorship, 1923-1945 -- 6 The Fascist … Regime and Big Business: The Fiat and Montecatini Cases -- 7 Entrepreneurs and the Fascist Regime in Italy: From the …