Evicted from eternity [[electronic resource] ] : the restructuring of modern Rome / / Michael Herzfeld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454908503321
• Autore: Herzfeld M (Michael)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009
• ISBN: 9786612239656; 1-282-23965-1; 0-226-32907-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/4160945632
• Soggetti: Gentrification - Italy - Rome; Urban renewal - Italy - Rome; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Overture. Encountering the Eternal City -- 1. Sin and the City -- 2. Popolo and Population -- 3. The Wages of Original Sin -- 4. Refractions of Social Life -- 5. Life and Law in a Flawed State -- 6. Scandals of Sociability -- 7. Extortionate Civilities -- 8. The Fine Art of Denunciation -- 9. Tearing the Social Fabric -- Coda: The Future of Eternity -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.