Continental Transfers: Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945(8 Studies in Latin American and Spanish History)

Despite being separated by thousands of miles and shaped by distinctive national histories, the countries of Spain, Italy, and Argentina were intertwined in a variety of ways during the first half of the twentieth century. This collection brings scholars from each nation into conversation with one another to trace these complex historical connections over the period of the two World Wars. Deploying “Latinity” as a novel analytical framework, it gives a broad and dynamic perspective on cases of reciprocal exchange that include the influence of Italian Socialism on Hispanophone leftists; the roots of Argentine liberalism in Machiavelli and Spanish Nationalist thinkers; and the web of connections among Italian Fascism, Argentine Nacionalismo, and Spanish Francoism.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Patrizia Dogliani and Maximiliano Fuentes Codera Chapter 1. Neutralities in the Battlefield: Spain, Italy and Argentina during the First World War Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Carolina García Sanz Chapter 2. Latinize the Russia of the Soviets. The influence of Italian socialism in Spain and Argentina after the Great War Steven Forti Chapter 3. Italian Anarcho-Syndicalism: Connections and Links between Spain and Argentina Marco Masulli Chapter 4. Machiavelli and Republicanism. Readings and receptions in Argentina and Spain (1920-1940) Leandro Losada Chapter 5. The Idea of latinità in the Political Culture of Fascism in Latin America: The Argentinean Case Federica Bertagna Chapter 6. Italian Fascist Cultural Intervention in the Spanish World, 1938-1943 Patrizia Dogliani Chapter 7. Circulating Fascisms: Mussolini, Hitler, Hispanidad in Argentina Federico Finchelstein Conclusions Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Patrizia Dogliani Index

About the Author :
Maximiliano Fuentes Codera is Associate Professor at the Universitat de Girona. His research and publications have focused on Spanish and European Intellectual and Political Contemporary History and its connections with Argentina. His latests works are España en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Una movilización cultural (2014), A Civil War of Words (2016, edited with Xavier Pla and Francesc Montero), Ideas comprometidas. Los intelectuales y la política (2018, edited with Ferran Archilés) and Spain and Argentina in the First World War. Transnational Neutralities (2021).

Review :
“All in all, this is a very useful volume presenting the history of political and cultural transfers between Europe and South America from an innovative and understudied perspective. The strengths are most visible when the authors take the transnational perspective seriously and organize their research accordingly. Thanks to this book we know much more about the triangular entanglements between Spain, Italy and Argentina.” • Bulletin of Spanish Studies