{"product_id":"roads-and-ruins-paul-baxa-9780802099952","title":"Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s, the Italian Fascist regime profoundly changed the landscape of Rome's historic centre, demolishing buildings and displacing thousands of Romans in order to display the ruins of the pre-Christian Roman Empire. This transformation is commonly interpreted as a failed attempt to harmonize urban planning with Fascism's ideological exaltation of the Roman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoads and Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the chaotic Fascist cityscape, filled with traffic and crumbling ruins, was in fact a reflection of the landscape of the First World War. In the radical interwar transformation of Roman space, Paul Baxa finds the embodiment of the Fascist exaltation of speed and destruction, with both roads and ruins defining the cultural impulses at the heart of the movement. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, \u003cem\u003eRoads and Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly textured study that offers an original perspective on a well known story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Baxa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802099955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802099952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Paul Baxa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419111932159,"sku":"9780802099952","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49e12ab6-e5eb-4a3e-b319-1d837ceb452e.jpg?v=1761509513","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roads-and-ruins-paul-baxa-9780802099952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}