Anglophobia in Fascist Italy
ISBN: 9781526159663
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; European Studies ; Political Science ; security-studies-discipline;

This book is freely available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Anglophobia in Fascist Italy traces the origins and development of anti-British sentiment in Fascist Italy, as Britain turned from being an ally in the First World War to an enemy in the Second. The book demonstrates that Fascist ideologues framed Britain as a stagnant and decaying country and the polar opposite of Fascism's new civilisation, to the point that the regime's assessment of British political resolve and military might were distorted by ideological bias. The book offers a thorough analysis of diplomatic, military and journalistic sources and demonstrates that anti-British tropes had permeated Italy to a greater degree than was previously believed.

Jacopo Pili received his doctorate in History from the University of Leeds and has taught at the University of Leeds and Rome Tor Vergata University

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