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020 $a9780199930241 (hardback)
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050 00 $aF2849$b.F483 2014
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100 1 $aFinchelstein, Federico,$d1975-
245 14 $aThe ideological origins of the dirty war :$bfascism, populism, and dictatorship in twentieth century Argentina /$cFederico Finchelstein.
264 1 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2014.
300 $axi, 214 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why did all of these regimes emerge in a country that was "born liberal"? Why did these authoritarian traits first emerge in Argentina under the shadow of fascism? In this book, Federico Finchelstein tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the perspective of political violence and ideology. He focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture throughout the twentieth century, analyzing the connections between fascist theory and the Holocaust, antisemitism, and the military junta's practices of torture and state violence, with its networks of concentration camps and extermination. The book demonstrates how the state's war against its citizens was rooted in fascist ideology, explaining the Argentine variant of fascism, formed by nacionalistas, and its links with European fascism and Catholicism. It particularly emphasizes the genocidal dimensions of the persecution of Argentine Jewish victims. The destruction of the rule of law and military state terror during the Dirty War, Finchelstein shows, was the product of many political and ideological reformulations and personifications of fascism. The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War provides a genealogy of state-sanctioned terror, revealing fascism as central to Argentina's political culture and its violent twentieth century"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Introduction: From Fascism to the Concentration Camps -- 1. The Ideological Origins of Fascist Argentina -- 2. Catholic Fascist Ideology in Argentina -- 3. Antisemitism, Sex, and Christianity -- 4. Peronism and Fascism -- 5. Bombs, Death, and Ideology: From Tacuara to Triple A -- 6. State Terrorism: The Ideology of the Argentine Dictatorship -- Epilogue: History, the Past, and the Present -- Notes -- Index.
650 0 $aFascism$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical violence$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aState-sponsored terrorism$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAntisemitism$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aChurch and state$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPeronism.
650 0 $aArgentina$xHistory$yDirty War, 1976-1983$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aArgentina$xHistory$yDirty War, 1976-1983$xAtrocities.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Latin America / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh