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He is coeditor of the Journal of Contemporary Historyand the author, most recently, of Man and Masses: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality.
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Mosse, G.L. Nationalism and sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe. Society 20, 75–84 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695011
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