The Great Confrontation as a Paradigm of Comparative History in the Mediterranean Area

Authors

  • Giovanni C. Cattini Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Antoni, 1965- Marimon Riutort Universitat de les Illes Balears

Keywords:

historiography, democracy, dictatorship, Fascism, militarism, Church

Abstract

The piece offers an approach to the subjects dealt with in the seminar “The great confrontation between democracy and dictatorship”. They are presented in different sections: the chronology of the modernization of the Mediterranean society; the causes of the weakness of liberalism and the role of the intellectuals; the public use of history in the historiographic debate with regards to Fascism/anti-Fascism and its transitions; the role of the church; the Army and militarism in authoritarian regimes.

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Issue

No. 14 (2011): Cercles. A Journal of Cultural History 14.

Section

Temes

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