Motorsport and Fascism

Living Dangerously

Paul Baxa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVIII, 313 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-97969-0 (ISBN)

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This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports. Motorsport was able to bring together the two dominant, and often opposed, cultural roots of Fascism, the Futurism of F. T. Marinetti, and the Decadence associated with Gabriele D'Annunzio. The book traces this cultural convergence through a topical study of motorsport in the 1920s and 1930s placing it in the context of the history of sport under Mussolini's regime. Chapters discuss the centrality of speed and death in Fascist culture, the attempt to transform Rome into a motorsport capital, the architectural and ideological function of the Monza and Tripoli and autodromes, and two chapters on the importance of the Mille Miglia, a genuine Fascist artefact that became one of the most legendary motor races of all time.

Paul Baxa is Associate Professor of History at Ave Maria University in Florida, USA. His previous publications include Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

1. Introduction.- 2. Rome-Motorsport Capital.- 3. Autodromes.- 4. Speed & Death.- 5. Going towards the People.- 6. The Invisible Race.- 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Global Culture and Sport Series
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 313 p. 13 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Formula 1 • Grand Prix • Italian Politics • Mussolini • Populism
ISBN-10	3-030-97969-5 / 3030979695
ISBN-13	978-3-030-97969-0 / 9783030979690
Zustand	Neuware