Adrian Lyttelton is Adjunct Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center, Bologna. He has also lectured at the University of Pisa, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Reading, and is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and All Souls College, Oxford. His publications include The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929, and Italian Fascisms.

• Introduction ; 1. State and society ; 2. Church, state, and Catholicism ; 3. The economy ; 4. Italy and the crisis of the international order ; 5. Fascist Ideology, foreign policy, and war ; 6. The totalitarian experiment ; 7. Modernization and daily life ; 8. The visual arts ; 9. Literature ; 10. Social and political thought ; Conclusion ; Maps ; Further Reading ; Chronology

Adrian Lyttelton is Adjunct Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center, Bologna. He has also lectured at the University of Pisa, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Reading, and is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and All Souls College, Oxford. His publications include The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929, and Italian Fascisms.

• Introduction ; 1. State and society ; 2. Church, state, and Catholicism ; 3. The economy ; 4. Italy and the crisis of the international order ; 5. Fascist Ideology, foreign policy, and war ; 6. The totalitarian experiment ; 7. Modernization and daily life ; 8. The visual arts ; 9. Literature ; 10. Social and political thought ; Conclusion ; Maps ; Further Reading ; Chronology