The Right and the Nation by Morant i Ariño, Toni; Sanz, Julián; Saz, Ismael;

Short description:

This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) to nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times.

Long description:

This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times.

The chapters extend the focus of analysis across the different cultures and movements of the Right, their broad geographical spread, as well as cultural factors. Adopting a transnational perspective, this volume highlights the significance of a series of processes – such as the growth of nationalist imaginaries and political cultures – that extended beyond national boundaries and were often articulated via cross-border dynamics. Special attention is paid to the political cultures and transnational networks of the Right in Europe and Latin America. Case studies including countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina provide the reader with a broad overview of the circulation of right-wing and conservative thinking.

Through an innovative approach, this volume offers scholars, students and the interested reader a valuable historical perspective to understand the development and expansion of right-wing nationalist and authoritarian positions.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Discourses and projects

2. Transnational and Enduring: The Long March of Spanish Reactionary Nationalism

3. Brazilian Integralist Action and Latin America: Fascist Projects and Transnational Circularities

4. The Transnational Falange and its Surveillance by US intelligence in the Río de La Plata Region

5. The far right in Southern Europe, otherness and transnationality in the 1930s and today

6. National Cinemas in Nationalist Dictatorships in Italy and Spain during the Twenties

7. Nationalist Shifts and Visitor Exchanges in the Franco-Perón Relationship

8. Against Democracy. Right–Wing Supranational Horizons between Spain and Argentina (1914–1945)

9. Cultural Policies in Spain, Portugal and Brazil during the Fascist Era: New books for a New State

10. Church, Catholicism and Nationalism: a Historiographical Approach

11. National sentiment and Catholic internationalism? The financial mobilisation of the faithful in favour of the papacy during the 1860s

12. A war of monuments: Religious and National Symbols in the Latin public space (1871–1939)

13. Quelling the Romantic Volcano: Catholic Antiliberalism and National Masculinities in the Mid–Nineteenth Century

14. From social to reproductive citizens: Family and gender in the Catholic social reform between Spain and Europe

15. Virility as an Ideal of National Regeneration in Spanish Fascism

16. Gender and the Nation for Fascist Women in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s

17. The Relationship between Centre and Periphery in Italian Fascism and Francoism: The Role of the Provinces

18. The Political Right and National Projects in France, Italy, and Spain, c.1968–c.1986