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Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy - The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 (Paperback, Revised)
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Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy - The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
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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.
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