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| ISBN: | 0511003005
9780511003004
0521593034
9780521593038
0511585225
9780511585227
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: Cardoza, Anthony L., 1947- Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy. Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521593034
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