Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City

Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City

by B. Painter
ISBN-10:
1403980020
ISBN-13:
9781403980021
Pub. Date:
08/11/2005
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US
ISBN-10:
1403980020
ISBN-13:
9781403980021
Pub. Date:
08/11/2005
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US
Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City

Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City

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Overview

In 1922 the Fascist 'March on Rome' brought Benito Mussolini to power. He promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and make Italy a strong and respected nation internationally. In the next two decades, Mussolini set about rebuilding the city of Rome as the site and symbol of the new fascist Italy. Through an ambitious program of demolition and construction he sought to make Rome a modern capital of a nation and an empire worthy of Rome's imperial past. Building the new Rome put people to work, 'liberated' ancient monuments, cleared slums, produced new "cities" for education, sports, and cinema, produced wide new streets, and provided the regime with a setting to showcase fascism's dynamism, power, and greatness. Mussolini's Rome thus embodied the movement, the man and the myth that made up fascist Italy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403980021
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 08/11/2005
Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
Edition description: 2005
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

BORDEN W PAINTER JR is Professor of History Emeritus, Trinity College.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Mussolini's Obsession with Rome Celebration and Construction Sports, Youth, and the New Italian Architecture and Empire Neighborhoods and Housing Axis and Empire War, Resistance, and the New Republic Conclusion Appendix: Chronology of Projects Appendix: Fascist Street and Place Names
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