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Author Krner, Axel

Title Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy : From Unification to Fascism
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (450 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Modern European History, 10
Routledge Studies in Modern European History, 10
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
Summary 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
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203895283
0203895282