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Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy
Anthony L. Cardoza
其他書名
The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930
出版Cambridge University Press, 2002-08-08
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / ItalyHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN05215222939780521522298
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o7KqQrL47pkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 power and political influence of Italy's most prominent regional aristocracy. In Piedmont, the nobles were able to develop more indirect forms of influence to satisfy their hunger for leadership based on something older than constitutions or electoral politics. They remained a largely separate group within local society, distinguished by their attachment to the values of lineage, military service, landownership, and social exclusivity. This aristocratic exclusivity and influence survived the agricultural depression of the nineteenth century, before succumbing finally to the devastating effects of World War I.