Fascism in Britain and the Extreme Right Vision

Reexamines the ideology and political program of Britain's interwar fascist and extreme right-wing groups, highlighting their contradictions and moral failings as they sought to restore national power through disengagement and isolation.

This book is a new assessment of the ideology and political program of Britain's fascist and extreme right-wing community during the interwar period (1919-1940). It examines this group's belief system as it clustered around three major preoccupations Modernisation, Empire, and War. In doing so, the book identifies many inconsistencies, contradictions, and moral failings, which contributed to the failure of the far-right tendency in the interwar years. The numerous beliefs and policies examined all point to a movement that was determined to return Britain to the levels of global power and international leadership it had once enjoyed but by means of policies of disengagement and isolation. As such, it provides insight into the resurgence of the extreme right today.