POPULATION-POLICY IN THE AGE OF FASCISM - OBSERVATIONS ON RECENT LITERATURE

This essay explores generally the literature on population and policy in interwar Western Europe that has emerged in the past 15 years or so and considers in depth several dealing with the Italian Fascist ''dem ographic battle,'' the topic of the author's own research. Population policy (and theory) in that period inevitably overlapped with eugenic and racial concerns, and those issues are considered as well. The rece nt proliferation of national studies-on Britain, Germany, and Italy, b ut surprisingly not France -argues for a new synthesis.