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Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy - The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 (Hardcover, New)
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Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy - The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
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Provides an account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification
era, and challenges scholarship which has stressed the rapid fusion
of old and new elites in Italy, and the marginality of the nobility
after 1861. Instead, the text highlights 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 that exercized not only their
wealth and prestige, but also a 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 19th century, before succumbing finally to the
devastating effects of World War I.
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