Political Outbreaks Against the Liberal Order 1917-1939: Practices and Celebrations

This book offers a fresh perspective on right-wing and left-wing revolutions, as well as political uprisings against the liberal order in interwar Europe, focusing on how they were politically used in the public sphere and exploring how these events were narrated and visually represented to justify new authoritarian systems and generate consensus around them.

Bringing together both senior academics and early-career scholars, the volume examines ten emblematic case studies combining original research on overlooked aspects of well-known events with analyses of lesser-studied, or even ‘peripheral’ cases. To provide a comprehensive understanding, the contributors approach the subject from multiple angles, spanning political and cultural history, the history of ideology and emotions, and gender history.

Moreover, with a transnational perspective, the book examines how anti-liberal and anti-democratic ideas crossed borders, shaping movements, parties, and regimes by influencing their symbolic practices and aesthetics ― elements that were borrowed, adapted and reinterpreted to create a shared political language across Europe and beyond.

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Giorgia Priorelli is a researcher fellow at Universitat de Girona, Spain. Her research interests include nationalism, Italian and Spanish fascisms, neofascism, refugees and forced displacement in the twentieth century. Publications include Italian Fascism and Spanish Falangism in Comparison: Constructing the Nation (2020) and Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political (2022).

Annarita Gori is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on cultural diplomacy, visual propaganda and intellectual networks during Portugal’s Estado Novo regime. Publications include Showing Salazarism. A Cultural History of Early Estado Novo Trought Political Exhibitions (2025) and Intellectuals in the Latin Space During the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders (2020).

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera is an associate professor at Universitat de Girona, Spain. He is an expert in the cultural, intellectual and transnational history of modern Europe and Latin America, with a focus on the history of nationalism and the First World War. His latest book is The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World (2023).