British Fascism 1918-39

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British Fascism 1918-39: Parties, Ideology and Culture is a book by Thomas Linehan. It is a survey of the fascist movements in Britain during the inter-war period.

It was published in 2000 as a 306-page hardcover (ISBN 0-7190-5023-5) and paperback (ISBN 0-7190-5024-3) by Manchester University Press and distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press.

[edit] Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations

• Introduction: The Historiography of Fascist Studies

1. Origins and progenitors
2. The early postwar context and the pre-fascist groups: incipient fascism?
3. The arrival of fascism: the British Fascisti and the Imperial Fascist League
4. The British Union of Fascists
5. The minor parties, 'one-man bands' and some fellow-travelers
6. The membership
7. British fascism and anti-semitism
8. Defining culture
9. A host of 'decadent' phenomena
10. The city, the countryside and the machine
11. Responding to the visual arts: British fascism and artistic modernism

• Select Bibliography
• Index