The early 20th century in Italy was a crucial period in its history. This book surveys the important issues and topics of the period including the origins and rise of fascism, Mussolini as prime minister and dictator, the totalitarian state, foreign policy and World War II. It also examines how Italian fascism compared to other inter-war dictatorships.

Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an inspection climate which prevades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events teacher have to experience. What effects do they have on teachers and their work, on their self and role, and on school policy and ethos? Drawing on six case studies from contrasting primary schools over a three-year period, this book reveals who OFSTED...

Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Contemporary and Historical Human Challenges brings together a range of original contributions that seek to critically interrogate the concept of 'crisis', a seemingly omnipresent and defining metonym of our times. Both international and interdisciplinary in perspective, the leading doctoral scholars and early-career researchers represented in this volume unsettle hegemonic notions of crisis (and possible remedies) by exploring both a very wide range of extant crises (in and of politics, economics, communities, technologies,...