Driving Modernity

Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-449-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

Reihe: Explorations in Mobility

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moraglio, Massimo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

List of Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Roads before the Motorways

Chapter 2. 1922: The Motorway from Milan to the Prealpine Lakes

Chapter 3. Motorway Mania in Italy in the 1920s

Chapter 4. The Ordinary Roads Problem

Chapter 5. From the Pedemontana Project to the Construction Suspension

Chapter 6. A Case Study: The Turin–Milan Motorway

Chapter 7. The 1930s: The European Utopia and the Nationalist Fulfillment

Chapter 8. The Bankruptcy and Legacy of the Motorways

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Moraglio, Massimo
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).