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Title:

DICTATING DEMOGRAPHY
THE PROBLEM OF POPULATION IN FASCIST ITALY

By:

Carl Ipsen

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0521554527

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9780521554527

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 October, 1996

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 28

Pages:

302

Description:

This book examines the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime.

Synopsis:

Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the Fascists attempted to translate that belief into policy by introducing a structured programme to increase the population in Italy. This included campaigns to increase the birth rate, the establishment of demographic colonies, and a battle against urbanisation. This book is a detailed examination of the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime. Based on archival research, it shows how the Fascists used statistics to mould public opinion, as well as to form policy, and demonstrates the ways in which population theory at the time both reflected and informed policy. Carl Ipsen argues that Mussolini's demographic policy can tell us a great deal about the contradictory nature of Fascism itself, and describes the Fascist efforts to mould the Italian population as one of the most telling examples of the failed attempt to create a totalitarian Fascist utopia.

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13 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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