The economic policies of right-wing dictatorships in the era of mass politics Dr C Ristuccia

This course will analyse economic policy making by European right-wing dictatorships in the 20th century, including Fascist Italy, Poland under Marshal Piłsudski, Portugal under Salazar, Nazi Germany, Franco’s Spain, and Vichy France. Course topics will include nationalism as an economic ideology, theories of citizenship in dictatorships, and the impact of economic superiority on the outcome of WW2, complemented with in-depth studies of economic policy in the countries listed above. The course’s comparative framework, and its exploration of methodological and theoretical tools to study nationalist economic policies, should provide the students with a solid background to understand Europe’s twentieth century. Classes will be spread over Michaelmas and Lent.

Introductory reading list Ben-Ghiat, R. (2001), Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. Bosworth, R. J. B. (1998), The Italian dictatorship. Problems and perspectives in the interpretation of Mussolini and fascism, London. Harrison, M. (ed.), The economics of World War II. Six great powers in international comparison, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Jackson, J. (2001), France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kallis, A. A. (2000), Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1922–1945, London: Routledge. Knox, M. (2000), Common destiny: dictatorship, foreign policy, and war in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Liberman, P. (1996), Does conquest pay? The exploitation of occupied industrial societies, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Milward, A. S. (1987), War, economy and society, 1939-1945, Harmondsworth: Penguin Morgan, P. (2002), Fascism in Europe, 1919–1945, London: Routledge. Overy, R. J. (1996), Why the Allies won: explaining victory in World War II, London: Pimlico. Roberts, D. D. (2006), The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-Century Europe: Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics. Rodogno, D. (2006), Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thomas, M. (1998), The French empire at war, 1940–1945, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Tooze, A. (2006), The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, London: Allen Lane. Willson, P. R., The clockwork factory. Women and work in fascist Italy, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993.