Before the European Union imagined unity through law and markets, fascism imagined it through empire and order. This book reveals how that other Europe- authoritarian, exclusionary, and yet hauntingly modern- continues to shadow contemporary visions of continental identity.
Emanuel Rota is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, where he also serves as Director of the European Union Center. He is affiliated with the Departments of History and French & Italian, the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, and the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory.
He received his PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held appointments at Dartmouth College and the University of Illinois. His work focuses on modern European intellectual history, with particular attention to fascism and antifascism, biopolitics, and the history of race, labor, and empire in the Mediterranean world.
His publications include A Pact with Vichy: Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration (Fordham University Press) and Fascist Europeanism: Its Francophone–Italian Roots from Pan-Europa to the European Communities (Routledge). His research has appeared in journals such as Cultural Critique, Modern Italian Studies, and Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies.