Alessandro Sebastiani

Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State

Ideological Placemaking, Archaeology, and Architecture, 1870-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the city was transformed to accommodate different political ideologies in the period from 1870 to the end of World War II. It offers a new approach to understanding the sophisticated relationships between archeology, urban planning, and politics within the city of Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781009354103
• ISBN-10: 1009354108
• Artikelnr.: 66896673

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Sebastiani is Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University at Buffalo (State University of New York). His research interests span from the Etruscan to the medieval periods, with a focus on the archaeology of Roman Tuscany. He is a former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Intra European Fellow at the University of Sheffield and has participated in numerous excavation projects across the Mediterranean. Most recently, he has been directing the Interconnected Mobility of People and Economy along the River Ombrone (IMPERO) Project in Etruria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Structure of the Book; 1. Placemaking: an introduction; 2. Ideological placemaking: narratives and agents (1870
1945); 3. Post-unification placemaking (1870
1922); 4. Reclaiming historical identities of four classical monuments; 5. The fascist placemaking of four classical monuments (1922
1945); 6. The fascist ideological placemaking: new architecture; 7. Afterword; References; Index.