Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy
Subtitle: The Piedmontese Nobility, 18611930 (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780521593038
Subjects: Social classes; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Italy - History; Social Stratification; Sociology - General; Social Science; History - General History; Political activity; History: World; Italy; Nobility; Europe - Italy; History / Europe / General; History / Italy; Nobility--Italy--Piedmont--History; History; Economic conditions; Piedmont; Piedmont (Italy)
First sentence: A remarkably consistent image of Piedmont's titled nobility emerges from contemporary accounts of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an image which suggests they were respected, but seldom loved.