1st Edition
Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy From Unification to Fascism
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
Biography
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).
'Essential' – CHOICE
'Körner’s work draws brilliantly on a vast range of primary and secondary material to produce a rich and original study covering an extremely wide set of areas and themes.' – Journal of Urban History
