Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Massimo MoraglioPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781800739390ISBN 10: 1800739397 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 14 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1. The Roads before the Motorways Chapter 2. 1922: The Motorway from Milan to the Prealpine Lakes Chapter 3. Motorway Mania in Italy in the 1920s Chapter 4. The Ordinary Roads Problem Chapter 5. From the Pedemontana Project to the Construction Suspension Chapter 6. A Case Study: The Turin-Milan Motorway Chapter 7. The 1930s: The European Utopia and the Nationalist Fulfillment Chapter 8. The Bankruptcy and Legacy of the Motorways Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviews...a welcome contribution to the literature on Fascist public works, most of which focus on architecture or urban planning, few of which study road-building, one of the most prolific areas of public works under Mussolini's regime... a much needed and valuable contribution to the history of motorway building in Europe. * Journal of Transport History This book contributes authoritatively to the growing field of mobility history, and it also demonstrates how fruitful the history of technology can be to the study of social and political change. * Journal of Modern History Based on prodigious archival research, Driving Modernity explores how the Italian autostrada project grew out of a somewhat fantastic idea by a coterie of Milan businessmen into an internationally recognized technological icon of Fascist Italy. This book speaks clearly and convincingly about the political values embedded in infrastructures. * Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland, College Park Moraglio's work is a deep dive into a grandiose and distinctively modern project in interwar Italy. Never before has the complex ideological character of these motorways been so clearly analyzed, from the moment of their conception to the widespread adoption of the automobile. * Mathieu Flonneau, Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, LabEx EHNE Author InformationMassimo Moraglio is a senior researcher at the Technische Universitat Berlin. He has received an EU Marie Sklodowska Curie IEF fellowship and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transport History. He has coedited the volumes The Organization of Transport: A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy (2015) and Peripheral Flows: A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
