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Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy : the Piedmontese nobility, 1861-1930 /
This book provides a full account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification era. It challenges interpretations which have stressed the rapid fusion of old and new elites in Italy and the marginality of the nobility after 1861, and instead highlights the continuing economic strength, social pow...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The making of the Piedmontese nobility: 1600-1848. From feudal aristocracy to service nobility: 1600-1790. Survival and adaptation in the French revolutionary era. The Indian summer of aristocratic primacy: 1815-1848. Internecine conflict and the end of aristocratic primacy
- 2. The long goodbye: aristocrats in politics and public life: 1848-1914. The place of the aristocracy in the new political order. The slow retreat from political office. The survival of aristocratic influence in public life. Aristocrats and Catholic lay politics in Piedmont. Informal networks of aristocratic influence
- 3. Old money: the scale and structure of aristocratic wealth. The distribution of wealth within the nobility. The structure of aristocratic wealth.