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Motorsport and Fascism

Living Dangerously

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Authors:
  1. Paul Baxa

    1. Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, USA

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  • Explores the close relationship between motorsport and Italian Fascism
  • Examines how two dominant Fascist cultural discourses converged in motor racing
  • Considers how the close relationship between Italian Fascism and motorsport left a mark on both

Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 1-26

  3. Speed & Death

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 27-83

  4. Autodromes

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 85-120

  5. Fascist Rome: Motorsport Capital

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 121-177

  6. The Mille Miglia: Going Toward the People

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 179-230

  7. The Invisible Race

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 231-274

  8. Conclusion

    • Paul Baxa
    Pages 275-291

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 293-313
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, USA

    Paul Baxa

About the author

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Motorsport and Fascism

  • Book Subtitle: Living Dangerously

  • Authors: Paul Baxa

  • Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97967-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97966-9Published: 29 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97969-0Published: 29 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97967-6Published: 28 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2662-3404

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , European Politics

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