Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State: Ideological Placemaking, Archaeology, and Architecture, 1870-1945

ISBN-13: 9781009354103 / Angielski

Alessandro Sebastiani

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Alessandro Sebastiani's book deals with the transformation of Rome at the turn of the 20th century in an original and innovative way, especially in the analysis of the passage (and of the elements of continuity despite the diversity of the context) between ideological instances of post-unification liberal Italy and those of the fascist regime.' Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, Professor of Urban Archaeology and Medieval Archaeology, Roma Tre University

Spis treści

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.