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The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini:The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime (Italian and Italian American Studies)
by: Mauro Canali (Author), Ann T. Pichey (Translator)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:2024th
Publication Date: 2024-02-29
Language: English
Print Length: 269 pages
ISBN-10: 3031414705
ISBN-13: 9783031414701
Book Description
This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a wealth of previously unavailable judicial and archival material, it sheds light on how fascism exercised power through violence and corruption from the very beginning. The book reveals the motives that led Mussolini to order the kidnapping and murder of Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in 1924, a tuing point in Mussolini’s grasp of total power in Italy. Canali further explores the corrupt dealings between the Mussolini family and the American Sinclair Oil Company that Matteotti had intended to denounce in the Italian parliament the day after his death.
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This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a wealth of previously unavailable judicial and archival material, it sheds light on how fascism exercised power through violence and corruption from the very beginning. The book reveals the motives that led Mussolini to order the kidnapping and murder of Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in 1924, a tuing point in Mussolini’s grasp of total power in Italy. Canali further explores the corrupt dealings between the Mussolini family and the American Sinclair Oil Company that Matteotti had intended to denounce in the Italian parliament the day after his death.
Mauro Canali is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Camerino, Italy.
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