Fascism's Urban Epicenter

von John Beldon Scott

420 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book re-imagines the heart of Rome, animating it with the mass rituals of Mussolini's pioneering regime of twentieth-century totalitarianism. It retrieves from a post-war amnesia the ceremonial events, urban sites, and historic monuments of the Duce's charismatic rulership, demonstrating how architecture and urbanism functioned as instruments of persuasion in fashioning a fevered national identity. Piazza Venezia and its surrounding structures emerge anew as material and spatial exemplars of an illiberal modernity, first as incubator and then as cockpit of a novel form of politics. Here you will experience the frenzied crowd at pavement level as a quintessential phenomenon of Fascist rule.

• Reihe: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004743519
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.01.2026
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV