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Roads and Ruins : The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442697379
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roads and RuinsDDC classification:
  • 945/.632091
LOC classification:
  • DG813.B393 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Death on the Via del Mare -- Introduction: Rome and Fascism -- 1 The Landscape of the War -- 2 Roads to Rome: The Blackshirts and the città nemico -- 3 Demolitions: De-familiarizing the Roman Cityscape -- 4 'An uninterrupted racecourse': Fascism's Roman Roads -- 5 The Palazzo and the Boulevard -- 6 Resurrecting a Pagan Landscape -- 7 Return of the Roman -- Conclusion: The Cinematic City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads and Ruinsis a richly textured study that offers an original perspective on a well known story.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Death on the Via del Mare -- Introduction: Rome and Fascism -- 1 The Landscape of the War -- 2 Roads to Rome: The Blackshirts and the città nemico -- 3 Demolitions: De-familiarizing the Roman Cityscape -- 4 'An uninterrupted racecourse': Fascism's Roman Roads -- 5 The Palazzo and the Boulevard -- 6 Resurrecting a Pagan Landscape -- 7 Return of the Roman -- Conclusion: The Cinematic City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads and Ruinsis a richly textured study that offers an original perspective on a well known story.

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