Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome

by Michael Herzfeld

Book Overview

Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226329127
• ISBN13: 9780226329123
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"