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Driving Modernity
Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
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Artikel-Nr:
9781800739390
Veröffentl:
2023
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.07.2023
Seiten:
210
Autor:
Massimo Moraglio
Gewicht:
312 g
Format:
229x152x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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).
On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan-Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. Driving Modernity recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which-alongside railways, aviation, and other forms of mobility-Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.