Introduction: explaining the far-right over the longue durée through capital, race and space

Abstract In this forum introduction I outline the core argument of my book, Capital, Race, and Space (CRS) and its main empirical substance, and then I address how and why I came to write it and how the argument is important for considering the state of the world today. The two volumes of CRS provide the first international historical sociology of Western far-right movements from their emergence in the second half of the nineteenth century up until the far-right upsurge after the 2007–8 North Atlantic financial crisis.