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

ISBN-13: 9780521593038 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str.

Anthony L. Cardoza; Gigliola Fragnito; Cesare Mozzarelli

Opis

This book provides the first full account of the Italian Sobility in the post-unification era, and challenges recent interpretations that 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. In Piedmont, the nobles developed more indirect forms of influence, while remaining a separate and exclusive group with limited social contacts with industrial or managerial elites, until World War I transformed their old way of life.

Recenzje

'… clearly written, illustrated with vivid detail, and backed up by excellent quantitative research.' Economic History Review

Spis treści

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.