{"product_id":"historical-culture-and-political-reform-in-the-italian-enlightenment-9781789622034","title":"Historical culture and political reform in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor centuries the society and politics of Old Regime Europe relied on the strong connection between past, present, and future and on a belief in the unstoppable continuity of time. What happened during the eighteenth century when the Age of Revolutions claimed to cancel the previous social order and announced the dawn of a new era? This book explores how antiquarianism provided new political bodies with allegedly time-hallowed traditions and so served as a source of legitimacy for reshaping European politics. The love for antiquities forged a common language of political communication within a burgeoning public sphere. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTo understand why this happened, Marco Cavarzere focuses on the cultural debates taking place in the Italian states from 1748 until 1796. During this period, governments tried to establish regional “national cultures” through erudite scholarship, with the intent of creating new administrative and political centralization within individual Italian states. Meanwhile, other sectors of local societies used the tools of antiquarianism in order to offer a counter-narrative on these political reforms.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUltimately, this book proposes a localized way of reading antiquarian texts. Far from presenting timeless knowledge, erudition in fact gave voice to specific tensions which were linked to restricted political arenas and regional public opinion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Wide-ranging and insightful… this book has achieved the not so small feat of offering an original interpretation of the culture of antiquarianism across the Italian peninsula. Rich in both insights and material, it has the enviable merits of helping to set an agenda for new work on the politics of scholarship in the age of Enlightenment, as well as introducing Italy’s eighteenth century to a broader public, which it will enthrall with its grand overview of historical culture from the medium of the book to that of the stage.’ Barbara Naddeo, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcepts\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Background\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: A country under construction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePushing Italy (and the world) aside\u003cbr\u003eNations and \u003ci\u003epatrie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanguages of Italy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: The importance of being erudite\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Muratorian moment\u003cbr\u003eAntiquarianism and political identities\u003cbr\u003eErudition and society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Institutional settings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic policies of communication\u003cbr\u003eAristocratic circles\u003cbr\u003eCommunication short circuits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Difficult transitions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Naturalizing sovereignty: law and history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The national king”\u003cbr\u003eConflicting kings\u003cbr\u003eNational laws\u003cbr\u003eA century without Rome\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: The land of Italian nations: space and history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeography and politics\u003cbr\u003eChorographic debates\u003cbr\u003eAntiquarian cartographies\u003cbr\u003eRitual geographies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Historical representation: collective memory and history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHard times for state historiography\u003cbr\u003eNew media: heroic genealogies\u003cbr\u003eNational history on stage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: an unfinished transition\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042587574615,"sku":"9781789622034","price":98.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789622034.jpg?v=1750954760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/historical-culture-and-political-reform-in-the-italian-enlightenment-9781789622034","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}