Excavating modernity
Subtitle: the Roman past in fascist Italy
By: Joshua Arthurs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801449987
Subjects: Historiography; Fascism and culture; Civilization; Museum exhibits; History; Roman influences; Archaeology and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Third Rome and its discontents, 1848-1922; title: Science and faith : the Istituto di studi romani, 1922-1929; title: History and hygiene in Mussolini's Rome, 1925-1938; title: The totalitarian museum : the Mostra augustea della romanità, 1937-1938; title: Empire, race, and the decline of romanità, 1936-1945.