The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture
“This revelatory book maps a virtually undiscovered aspect of Europe under Nazi and Fascist hegemony: the attempt to create pan-European cultural institutions for film, music, and literature. This enterprise required a redefinition of what ‘Europe’ meant for the Nazis, the Fascists, and for the extreme right in virtually every European country. Martin’s transnational approach is without doubt a major contribution to a new generation of scholarship about fascism and modernity.”
—Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
"narrated with great erudition and grace...Drawing upon libraries and archives in five different countries, Martin’s work is a dazzling transnational history of ideas and institutions as well as a major contribution to our understanding of fascism and the Third Reich: Martin reveals how cultural initiatives unlock the political imagination of the interwar radical right."
"Martin’s illuminating book...adds a significant dimension to our understanding of how the Nazi and Fascist empires were constructed. [...] Martin unravels these multinational connections with clarity and precision, aided by research and reading in at least five European languages. [...] This story has been approached mostly, if at all, in individual national terms, but Martin has brought the whole Axis cultural project admirably into focus."
—Robert O. Paxton, in The New York Review of Books
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Chosen as Editor's pick in EuropeNow (January 2017)
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REVIEWS:
Reviewed in Journal of Contemporary History (February 2020)
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of History (Autumn 2018)
Reviewed in The Historian (September 2018)
Reviewed in Historische Zeitschrift (August 2018)
Reviewed in The Journal of Modern History (June 2018)
Reviewed in H-Diplo (April 2018)
Reviewed in The American Historical Review (February 2018)
Reviewed in The New York Review of Books (October 2017)
Reviewed in H-France (August 2017)
Reviewed in The New Republic (May 2017)
Reviewed in Michigan War Studies Review (May 2017)
Reviewed in Journal of Social History (April 2017)
Reviewed in Central European History (March 2017)
Reviewed in Dagens Nyheter (January 2017) (in Swedish)
Reviewed in New Statesman (November 2016)