Hobsbawm s classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.

This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture.

Examines the creation and function of the imagined communities of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.

For almost all nations, the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. This title aims to bring to life the period when Italians participated in a vast and ultimately ruinous political experiment under their dictator, Benito Mussolini, and his fascist henchmen.

Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an aesthetic experience? What makes states and nations become fascist?

A tour de force from one of the world's top historians of fascism. Unrivalled in its breadth of coverage, this is not only the first full history of fascism in interwar Europe, but also survey of fascist theory and postwar fascism.