Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930

by Anthony L. Cardoza

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522293
• ISBN13: 9780521522298
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"