British Fascism 1918–39

"British Fascism 1918-39: Parties, Ideology and Culture" is a book by Thomas Linehan. It is a survey of the fascist movements in Britain during the inter-war period.

It was published in 2000 as a 306-page hardcover (ISBN 0-7190-5023-5) and paperback (ISBN 0-7190-5024-3) by Manchester University Press and distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press.

Contents

*Preface and Acknowledgments
*List of Abbreviations

*Introduction: The Historiography of Fascist Studies

#Origins and progenitors
#The early postwar context and the pre-fascist groups: incipient fascism?
#The arrival of fascism: the British Fascisti and the Imperial Fascist League
#The British Union of Fascists
#The minor parties, 'one-man bands' and some fellow-travelers
#The membership
#British fascism and anti-semitism
#Defining culture
#A host of 'decadent' phenomena
#The city, the countryside and the machine
#Responding to the visual arts: British fascism and artistic modernism

*Select Bibliography
*Index