Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy - The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930

Klappentext A full account of the Italian nobility in the period after national unification. Zusammenfassung This is a full account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification era. It challenges interpretations which have stressed the rapid fusion of old and new elites by highlighting the continuing economic strength! social power and political influence of Italy's most prominent regional aristocracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The making of the Piedmontese nobility, 1600-1848; 2. The long goodbye: aristocrats in politics and public life, 1848-1914; 3. Old money: the scale and structure of aristocratic wealth; 4. Perpetuating an aristocratic social elite; 5. The limits of fusion: aristocratic-bourgeois relations in nineteenth-century Piedmont; 6. Retreat and adaptation in the twentieth century; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Cardoza Anthony L., Anthony L. Cardoza
• Assisted by: Gigliola Fragnito (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.1998
• EAN: 9780521593038
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59303-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History