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Dictating demography : the problem of population in fascist Italy /
Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the Fascists attempted to translate that belief into policy by introducing a structured programme to increase the population in Italy. This included campaigns to increase the birth rate, the establishment of demographic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ;
28. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the Fascists attempted to translate that belief into policy by introducing a structured programme to increase the population in Italy. This included campaigns to increase the birth rate, the establishment of demographic colonies, and a battle against urbanisation. This book is a detailed examination of the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime. Based on archival research, it shows how the Fascists used statistics to mould public opinion, as well as to form policy, and demonstrates the ways in which population theory at the time both reflected and informed policy. Carl Ipsen argues that Mussolini's demographic policy can tell us a great deal about the contradictory nature of Fascism itself, and describes the Fascist efforts to mould the Italian population as one of the most telling examples of the failed attempt to create a totalitarian Fascist utopia. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058513104X 9780585131047 9780511000775 0511000774 0511821425 9780511821424 0511581955 9780511581953 |