The cultural and material legacies of the Roman Republic and Empire in evidence throughout Rome have made it the "Eternal City." Too often, however, this patrimony has caused Rome to be seen as static and antique, insulated from the transformations of the modern world. In Excavating Modernity, Joshua Arthurs dramatically revises this perception, arguing that as both place and idea, Rome was strongly shaped by a radical vision of modernity imposed by Mussolini’s regime between the two world wars.
Italian Fascism’s appropriation of the Roman past―the idea of Rome, or romanità― encapsulated the Fascist virtues of discipline, hierarchy, and order; the Fascist "new man" was modeled on the Roman legionary, the epitome of the virile citizen-soldier. This vision of modernity also transcended Italy’s borders, with the Roman Empire providing a foundation for Fascism’s own vision of Mediterranean domination and a European New Order. At the same time, romanità also served as a vocabulary of anxiety about modernity. Fears of population decline, racial degeneration and revolution were mapped onto the barbarian invasions and the fall of Rome. Offering a critical assessment of romanità and its effects, Arthurs explores the ways in which academics, officials, and ideologues approached Rome not as a site of distant glories but as a blueprint for contemporary life, a source of dynamic values to shape the present and future.

Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy

History

Arthurs, Joshua

Ancient Civilizations

Cornell University Press

La seconda guerra mondiale concluse una lunga stagione di conflittualita politica, militare e sociale. Eppure al termine delle ostilita le esperienze, le culture, le pratiche della violenza furono lungi dal cessare in Italia come in molti paesi europei. Comportamenti dettati dall'inerzia e nuove aggressivita, vendette a lungo covate, aspettative deluse, rivendicazioni antiche e rinnovati antagonismi, nuovi focolai di guerra civile sfociarono in pratiche violente radicate durante il conflitto, ma riattivate nelle forme e nei contenuti dal contesto della guerra fredda e dalla difficile transizione verso la democrazia che segno il dopoguerra europeo.

Oltre Il 1945: Violenza, Conflitto Sociale, Ordine Pubblico Nel Dopoguerra Europeo (I Libri Di Viella) (Italian Edition)

Beattie, Andrew H.

Ambrosi, Luigi

Acciai, Enrico

Rodrigo, Javier

ARCHAMBAULT, FABIEN

Bertuccelli, Lorenzo

Faraldo Jarillo, Jose M

Guida, Elisa

Panvini, Guido

Poesio, Camilla

Rovatti, Toni

Europe

Viella Editrice

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