Treating the tumultuous period from 1901 to the late 1920s, this book describes social and political conflict in the cradle of agrarian fascism.

Originally published in 1983.

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Anthony L. Cardoza

• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• List of Maps,
• Acknowledgments,
• Abbreviations,
• INTRODUCTION,
• I. THE PROVINCE OF BOLOGNA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,
• II. POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION AND AGRARIAN REACTION, 1901-1909,
• III. THE NEW AGRARIAN BOURGEOISIE AND THE STRATEGY OF MILITANT RESISTANCE, 1908-1911,
• IV. THE POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION, 1912-1914,
• V. POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN WARTIME BOLOGNA,
• VI. AN ELITE BESIEGED: THE POSTWAR CRISIS IN BOLOGNA,
• VII. THE RISE OF AGRARIAN FASCISM IN BOLOGNA, 1920-1921,
• VIII. THE AGRARIAN FASCIST CONQUEST OF THE COUNTRYSIDE,
• IX. FROM MOVEMENT TO REGIME: BOLOGNESE FASCISM, 1921-1926,
• EPILOGUE: THE RELATIVE REWARDS OF DICTATORSHIP,
• References,
• Index,