The Right and the Nation

This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times. The chapters extend the focus of analysis across the different cultures and movements of the Right, their broad geographical spread, as well as cultural factors. Adopting a transnational perspective, this volume highlights the significance of a series of processes - such as the growth of nationalist imaginaries and political cultures - that extended beyond national boundaries and were often articulated via cross-border dynamics. Special attention is paid to the political cultures and transnational networks of the Right in Europe and Latin America. Case studies including countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina provide the reader with a broad overview of the circulation of right-wing and conservative thinking. Through an innovative approach, this volume offers scholars, students and the interested reader a valuable historical perspective to understand the development and expansion of right-wing nationalist and authoritarian positions.

Toni Morant is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia. His most important research focuses on interwar fascism from a transnational and gender perspective, and he co-edited the collection Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships. Against Democracy (2019). Julián Sanz is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia. His main research field focuses on the Spanish right and the Franco dictatorship, and his more recent book is España en camisa azul. Falange, cultura política y poderes locales (2022). Ismael Saz is Professor of Contemporary History at the Valencia University. His main research field is focused on fascist and nationalist political cultures, as well as on Franco dictatorship. His more important works included España contra España (2003), Fascismo y franquismo (2004) and the co-edition of Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships. Against Democracy (2019).

Part 1: Discourses and projects 2. Transnational and Enduring: The Long March of Spanish Reactionary Nationalism ISMAEL SAZ 3. Brazilian Integralist Action and Latin America: Fascist Projects and Transnational Circularities LEANDRO PEREIRA GONÇALVES 4. The Transnational Falange and its Surveillance by US intelligence in the Río de La Plata Region DANIEL LVOVICH 5. The far right in Southern Europe, otherness and transnationality in the 1930s and today JORGE RAMOS TOLOSA PART 2: Mass culture and cultural politics 6. National Cinemas in Nationalist Dictatorships in Italy and Spain during the Twenties MARTA GARCÍA CARRIÓN 7. Nationalist Shifts and Visitor Exchanges in the Franco-Perón Relationship NURIA TABANERA GARCÍA 8. Against Democracy. Right-Wing Supranational Horizons between Spain and Argentina (1914-1945) MAXIMILIANO FUENTES CODERA 9. Cultural Policies in Spain, Portugal and Brazil during the Fascist Era: New books for a New State GABRIELA DE LIMA GRECCO PART 3: Nation and Religion. National catholicisms 10. Church, Catholicism and Nationalism: a Historiographical Approach ALFONSO BOTTI 11. National sentiment and Catholic internationalism? The financial mobilisation of the faithful in favour of the papacy during the 1860s ARTHUR HÉRISSON 12. A war of monuments: Religious and National Symbols in the Latin public space (1871-1939) JAVIER ESTEVE MARTÍ PART 4: Gender and Nation in right-wing imaginaries 13. Quelling the Romantic Volcano: Catholic Antiliberalism and National Masculinities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century XAVIER ANDREU-MIRALLES 14. From social to reproductive citizens: Family and gender in the Catholic social reform between Spain and Europe INMACULADA BLASCO HERRANZ 15. Virility as an Ideal of National Regeneration in Spanish Fascism ZIRA BOX 16. Gender and the Nation for Fascist Women in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s TONI MORANT PART 5: Nations and territories 17. The Relationship between Centre and Periphery in Italian Fascism and Francoism: The Role of the Provinces JULIÁN SANZ HOYA 18. The Political Right and National Projects in France, Italy, and Spain, c.1968-c.1986 FERRAN ARCHILÉS & VEGA RODRÍGUEZ-FLORES