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Mussolini’s Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City

By Borden W. Painter Jr. (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2005
ISBN
978-1-4039-8002-1, 978-1-4039-7691-8
DOI
10.1057/9781403976918
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4344922 bytes)
Series
Italian and Italian American Studies
Edition
1
Pages
XX, 200\214
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
CountriesHistory of Italy;European History;Modern History;ARegions

Description

In 1922 the Fascist 'March on Rome' brought Benito Mussolini to power. He promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and make Italy a strong and respected nation internationally. In the next two decades, Mussolini set about rebuilding the city of Rome as the site and symbol of the new fascist Italy. Through an ambitious program of demolition and construction he sought to make Rome a modern capital of a nation and an empire worthy of Rome's imperial past. Building the new Rome put people to work, 'liberated' ancient monuments, cleared slums, produced new "cities" for education, sports, and cinema, produced wide new streets, and provided the regime with a setting to showcase fascism's dynamism, power, and greatness. Mussolini's Rome thus embodied the movement, the man and the myth that made up fascist Italy.

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