| Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861 1930 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cardoza, Anthony L. (Author), Anthony L., Cardoza (Author), Fragnito, Gigliola (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521522293 ISBN-13: 9780521522298 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $62.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.522 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.04" W x 9.26" (0.87 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Italian |