Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy : the Piedmontese nobility, 1861-1930

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of tables = xi
• Acknowledgments = xiii
• Introduction = 1
• 1 The making of the Piedmontese nobility : 1600-1848 = 13
• From feudal aristocracy to service nobility : 1600-1790 = 16
• Survival and adaptation in the French revolutionary era = 26
• The Indian summer of aristocratic primacy : 1815-1848 = 33
• Internecine conflict and the end of aristocratic primacy = 42
• 2 The long goodbye : aristocrats in politics and public life : 1848-1914 = 55
• The place of the aristocracy in the new political order = 56
• The slow retreat from political office = 64
• The survival of aristocratic influence in public life = 71
• Aristocrats and Catholic lay politics in Piedmont = 77
• Informal networks of aristocratic influence = 82
• 3 Old money : the scale and structure of aristocratic wealth = 89
• The distribution of wealth within the nobility = 92
• The structure of aristocratic wealth = 104
• The preservation and transfer of aristocratic wealth = 114
• Aristocratic wealth and symbolic power = 122
• 4 Perpetuating an aristocratic social elite = 126
• The character and dimensions of the aristocratic family = 128
• Aristocratic education within the family fortress = 136
• Private schools and aristocratic education = 139
• An officer and a gentleman : aristocratic career patterns = 149
• Aristocratic sociability : the Societ$$\grave a$$ del Whist = 155
• 5 The limits of fusion : aristocratic-bourgeois relations in nineteenth-century Piedmont = 162
• Mingling in the public realm = 163
• The limits of economic interpenetration = 169
• Lineage, wealth, and intermarriage = 177
• Cultivating difference : patterns of residence and display = 181
• The limits of fusion : gentlemen's clubs and high society = 187
• 6 Retreat and adaptation in the twentieth century = 196
• The agricultural crisis and the Piedmontese aristocracy = 197
• Changing patterns of aristocratic investment and social behavior = 204
• World War Ⅰ and the economic crisis of the nobility = 212
• Aristocratic social reconversion in the inter-war period = 219
• Bibliography = 226
• Index = 241