The Printed Media in Fin-de-Siecle Italy: Publishers,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Caesar, Ann Hong>allong>imore / Romani, Gabrielle / Burns, Jennifer, PUBLISHER: Legenda, The Unification ong>ofong> Italy in heralded a period ong>ofong> unprecedented change. While successive Liberal governments pursued imperial ventures and took Italy into World War One on the ong>Allong>ied side, on the domestic front technological advance, the creation ong>ofong> a national transport network, the expansion ong>ofong> state education, internal migration to cities and the rise ong>ofong> political associations ong>allong> contributed to the rapid expansion ong>ofong> the print industry and the development ong>ofong> new and highly diversified reading publics. Drawing on publishers' archives, letters, diaries, and printed material, this book provide the most up-to-date research into the printed media - books, magazines and journals - in Italy between and . With ong>essaysong> on publishers and reading communities, the prong>ofong>essionalization ong>ofong> the role ong>ofong> journalist and writer, children's literature, book illustrations, and printed media in colonial territories among others, this book is intended for those with interests in cultural production and consumption and questions ong>ofong> nation-formation and nationhood in and outside Italy.