Agriculture in the Age of Fascism

Authoritarian Technocracy and rural modernization, 1922-1945

Edited by Lourenzo Fernandez Prieto Edited by Juan Pan-Montojo Edited by Miguel Cabo

Book cover: Agriculture in the Age of Fascism

Extent: 261 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Social Sciences , Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Rural History in Europe

Series volume number: 13

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(August 2014)

ISBN: 9782503552484

Price: $95.00

In stock

The agrarian policies of fascism have never before been studied from a comparative perspective. This volume offers an up-to-date overview, as well as new insights drawn from eight case-studies on Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Spain, Japan and Vichy France. The consensus that emerges from them is that the agricultural an


The agrarian policies of fascism have never before been studied from a comparative perspective. This volume offers an up-to-date overview, as well as new insights drawn from eight case-studies on Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Spain, Japan and Vichy France. The consensus that emerges from them is that the agricultural and rural policies of fascist regimes tended towards modernization and that many of them resembled initiatives pursued in the post-war decades and the Green Revolution, When viewed in this perspective, the fascist era appears less as an aberration and more as an integral part in the global process of agrarian “modernization”, a process whose merits are now being called into question.

  • Edited by Lourenzo Fernandez Prieto
  • Edited by Juan Pan-Montojo
  • Edited by Miguel Cabo