Ismael Saz is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Zira Box is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Julián Sanz is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València, Spain.

Explores the coexistence of fascism and reactionary nationalism within a range of twentieth-century dictatorships and regimes

Focuses on key Western European case studies, including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany, as well as briefer overviews of political cultures in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Takes a global approach to understanding how these cultures and specific political movements evolved during the interwar period

1 Introduction - Ismael Saz, Zira Box, Toni Morant, Julián Sanz.- Part I Reactionary Nationalisms.- 2 The Action Française in a Transnational Perspective - Olivier Dard.- 3 "Fellow travellers": the history and evolution of the relationship between the nationalists and the fascists - Lorenzo Benadusi.- 4 The intellectual roots and political foundations of reactionary Spanish nationalism in an international context - Maximiliano Fuentes.- 5 Reactionary Nationalism and Fascism: The German Case - Hermann Beck.- 6 Around the Ways of the Rights in South America in the early Twentieth Century. Problems and Questions - Fernando Devoto.- Part II Fascisms.- 7 Fascism and fascists in Italy - Patrizia Dogliani.- 8 The German Fascists: Nazi Political Culture - Toni Morant.- 9 Fascisms in France - Olivier Forlin.- 10 A fascism that came to stay? On Falange's political culture - Julián Sanz Hoya.- 11 The Portuguese "Blue Shirts" and Salazar's "New State" - António Costa Pinto.- 12 Fascism in Central Europe: Big Fascisms in (not that) small countries - Traian Sandu.- Part III Dictatorships.- 13 Political Cultures in the Fascist Regime, Transversalities and Contradictions - Ismael Saz.- 14 National Socialists and Conservative Nationalists in the German Dictatorship - Michael Grüttner.- 15 The Portuguese New State in Comparative Perspective. The Constitutional Foundations of an Ethical State - Gofredo Adinolfi.- 16 The Franco Dictatorship: A proposal for analysis in terms of political cultures - Zira Box.- 17 Vichy, a Fascist State? - Olivier Wierwiorka.- 18 Authoritarianism, nationalism, fascism and National Security Doctrine. The debate on Latin American Southern Cone dictatorships - Daniel Lvovich.-