Roads and Ruins : : The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome / / Paul Baxa.
In the 1930s, the Italian Fascist regime profoundly changed the landscape of Rome's historic centre, demolishing buildings and displacing thousands of Romans in order to display the ruins of the pre-Christian Roman Empire. This transformation is commonly interpreted as a failed attempt to harmo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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