Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
A challenging new account of the survival of the Italian aristocracy after the unification of Italy, to 1930.
Synopsis
The first full account of the Italian nobility in the period after national unification.
Synopsis
This is the first full account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification era. It challenges recent interpretations which have stressed the rapid fusion of old and new elites by highlighting the continuing economic strength, social power and political influence of Italyâs most prominent regional aristocracy.
Table of Contents
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.