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Politics in a Museum Governing Post-War Florence
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James Edward Miller
ISBN: 0-275-97231-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97231-8
280 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: How and why has the city of Florence, one of the great treasure houses of western civilization, been reduced to little more than a Renaissance Disneyland for tourists? Florence, once a center of national intellectual creativity, has become a city with two separate lives. Its historic center caters to and profits from tourists, while the periphery houses a population that endures overcrowding, decaying infrastructure, and an exorbitant cost of living. In Politics in a Museum, James Miller investigates Florence's losing struggle with modern times.

He traces the city's story from its bloody liberation in 1944 through a reconstruction led by Communist and Catholic saints, the flood of 1966, the booms and busts of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. In the process, Miller provides an analysis of the defects of Italy's national political system, as well as a meticulous reconstruction of the men and events that have placed Florence alongside Venice in the unenviable status of museum city.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Liberation
    Old Wine in New Bottles: From CTLN to Party Control, 1944-1947
    Red Flag Over Palazzo Vecchio, 1947-1951
    Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground: La Pira, 1951-1954
    Building a City on the Hill, 1954-1957
    Intermezzo, 1957-1960
    The Center Left at Florence, 1960-1965
    The Flood
    Muddling Through: The Bausi Years: 1968-1974
    The Historic Compromise at Florence, 1975-1981
    Who's in Charge? The Florentine Pentapartito
    City of Culture
    The Party's Over
    Conclusion: Penelope's Sindle
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: JAMES EDWARD MILLER is a scholar with the European Studies Program of the Foreign Service Institute.
LCC Class: 945
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