Ruling classes in unified Italy: between groups and territories

Mario De Prospo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-120-8

Ruling classes in unified Italy: between groups and territories

Authors

Mario De Prospo

Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1426-8932

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-120-8

Keywords:

Ruling classes, Contemporary Italy, Spaces, Professional and political networks

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 176

Language: italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28102

Abstract: This work arises from the presentations held during the research seminar of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO) titled Ruling classes and spaces in the contemporary period. Asymmetries between centres and peripheries, continuities and discontinuities. The Italian case (1861-2015), organized between the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 and coordinated by the Centro di ricerca “Guido Dorso” per lo studio del pensiero meridionalistico. The volume is conceived as a test for the vitality of a field of study of historiography on contemporary Italy: that on the various sectors of the country’s elite from Risorgimento to present days. This effort has been made through direct discussion between scholars, paying particular attention to the territorial diversities and the political and institutional changes. The work offers a rich and multifaceted collection of essays, focusing on different geographical areas and segments of the Italian ruling classes, based on different methodological approaches and various sources.

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Author Biography

Mario De Prospo, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

Mario De Prospo is currently research fellow and adjunct professor in History of international relation at the Department of Political and Social Science of the University of Bologna. His main research interests are focused in particular on the history and agency of ruling classes in the 20th century, intersecting social history and the history of political institutions. He was already a research fellow in other Italian universities, with projects related to the history of Italian elites in and his current research aims to study the role of experts in the context of an international institution, the relationship of the experts with the top management of this organization, the influence of local institution and society in the field.