Axel Körner

Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy

From Unification to Fascism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415807425
• ISBN-10: 0415807425
• Artikelnr.: 41491100

Autorenporträt

Axel Körner is a reader in Modern European History at University College London. His publications include Das Lied von einer anderen Welt. Kulturelle Praxis in französischen und deutschen Arbeitermilieu (1997) and 1848: A European Revolution? (2000; rev.ed. 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Political and Social Conflict
1 Notabili: The Local Persistence of the Old Régime
2 The Theatre of Social Change: Opera Industry and the End of Social
Privilege
3 Money and Culture
Part Two: Writing the Past.
4 The Middle Class and the Historicising of the Present
5 Medieval Revival
6 Etruscans, Romans and Italians
Part Three: The City, The Nation and European Culture
7 Urban Space and Civic Culture: Representing City and Nation
8 Margherita: Umbertian Italy and its Monarchy
9 "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
Bibliography
Index