Massimo Moraglio

Gebundenes Buch

Driving Modernity

Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

Beschreibung

Recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism.. Explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision. Addresses the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781785334498
• ISBN-10: 1785334492
• Artikelnr.: 45232912