Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
About the Book Series
This book series focuses upon national, transnational and global manifestations of fascist, far right and right-wing politics primarily within a historical context but also drawing on insights and approaches from other disciplinary perspectives. Its scope also includes anti-fascism, radical-right populism, extreme-right violence and terrorism, cultural manifestations of the far right, and points of convergence and exchange with the mainstream and traditional right.
Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century: The ‘National Socialist Underground’ and the History of Terror from the Far-Right in Germany
1st Edition
By Daniel Koehler
February 12, 2018
This book is the first comprehensive academic study of German right-wing terrorism since the early 1960s available in the English language. It offers a unique in-depth analysis of German violent, extremist right-wing movements, terrorist events, groups, networks and individuals. In addition, the ...
Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Copsey, Matthew Worley
December 14, 2017
This book traces the varied development of the far right in Britain from the formation of the National Front in 1967 to the present day. Experts draw on a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives to provide a rich and detailed account of the evolution of the various strands of the ...
Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir
1st Edition
By Anton Shekhovtsov
September 19, 2017
The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and Western far right activists, publicists, ...
Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda
1st Edition
By Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
September 18, 2017
In this fascinating volume, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy elucidates the phenomenon of the Nazi propaganda machine via the perspective of consumer marketing, conceptualising the Reich as a product campaign. Building on his acclaimed Selling Hitler (2016), he uses marketing scholarship to show how ...
Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research
1st Edition
By Kathleen M. Blee
July 26, 2017
White supremacist groups are highly secretive, so their public propaganda tells us little about their operations or the people they attract. To understand the world of organized racism it is necessary to study it from the inside by talking to their members and observing their groups. Doing so ...
Anti-Fascism in Britain
2nd Edition
By Nigel Copsey
October 21, 2016
Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action. Yet it is an area of struggle and popular resistance that remains largely unexplored by historians, sociologists and political scientists. Fully revised and updated from its earlier edition, ...
What Did You Do During the War?: The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45
1st Edition
By Richard Griffiths
October 04, 2016
This book is a sequel to Richard Griffiths’s two highly successful previous books on the British pro-Nazi Right, Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany 1933-39 and Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940. It follows the ...
Fascist in the Family: The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P.
1st Edition
By Francis Beckett
September 19, 2016
John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness. But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley’s fascists, and one of Britain’s three best known anti-Semites. Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a ...
Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks
1st Edition
By Philip Coupland
September 14, 2016
The life of Jorian Jenks (1899-1963) has great potential to upset settled assumptions. Why did a sensitive and intelligent man from a liberal family become a fascist? How did a Blackshirt go green? The son of an eminent academic, from his childhood onwards Jenks instead longed to farm. Lacking the ...
Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce
1st Edition
By Colin Holmes
August 15, 2016
Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the political lives of William Joyce. He became notorious as a fascist, an anti-Semite and then as a Second World War traitor when, assuming the persona of Lord Haw-Haw, he acted as a radio propagandist for the Nazis. It is an endlessly ...
France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis
1st Edition
By Brian Jenkins, Chris Millington
May 04, 2016
France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the ...
Cultures of Post-War British Fascism
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Copsey, John E. Richardson
April 23, 2015
In Post-War Britain cultural interventions were a feature of fascist parties and movements, just as they were in Europe. This book makes a new major contribution to existing scholarship which begins to discuss British fascism as a cultural phenomenon. A collection of essays from leading academics, ...