Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy

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Springer, Dec 11, 2015 - Political Science - 264 pages
No other political party in the history of Britain's fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today's British National Party (BNP). This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
John Tyndall and the Origins of the British National Party
6
2 The Struggle for the Soul of British Nationalism
29
The British National Party in the 1990s
51
The Ideology of Tyndalls British National Party
76
Nick Griffin and the Modernisation of the British National Party 19992001
100
The Rise of the British National Party 20012003
124
The British National Party since 2004
150
8 The British National Party in Comparative Perspective
174
Conclusion
203
Notes
209
Select Bibliography
249
Index
253
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NIGEL COPSEY is Reader in Modern History at the University of Teesside (UK). The author of Anti-Fascism in Britain, and co-editor of British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State, he has published widely on British right-wing extremism, fascism and anti-fascism.

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