ISBN:
0415962919
,
9780415962919
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 427 p)
,
ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in modern European history 12
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy : From Unification to Fascism
DDC:
306.0945/09034
Keywords:
Federal-city relations
;
Italy Politics and government 1870-1914
;
Italy Cultural policy
Abstract:
Exploring theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, this book analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, class conflicts, and the emergence of new belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Biographical Boxes; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Political and Social Conflict; 1 Notabili: The Local Persistence of the Old Régime; 2 The Theatre of Social Change: The Opera Industry and the End of Social Privilege; 3 Money and Culture; Part II Writing the Past; 4 The Middle Class and the Historicising of the Present; 5 Medieval Revival; 6 Etruscans, Romans and Italians; Part III The City, the Nation and European Culture; 7 Urban Space and Civic Culture: Representing City and Nation
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Margherita: Umbertian Italy and its Monarchy9 "Viva Rossini-Morte a Wagner"?: From Campanilismo to the Future; 10 Conclusions and Epilogue: Modernity, the Political Power of Culture and the Collapse of Liberal Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-403) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
