| Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861 1930 Contributor(s): Cardoza, Anthony L. (Author), Anthony L., Cardoza (Author), Fragnito, Gigliola (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521593034 ISBN-13: 9780521593038 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1998 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 |
| Dewey: 305.522 |
| LCCN: 97001848 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Italy - Ethnic Orientation - Italian |