Driving Modernity: Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943 - Couverture souple

Moraglio, Massimo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800739397 ISBN 13 : 9781800739390

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2023

Synopsis

On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan-Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. Driving Modernity recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which--alongside railways, aviation, and other forms of mobility--Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Massimo Moraglio is a senior researcher at the Technische Universität 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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800739397
• ISBN 13: 9781800739390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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