商品簡介
The "city of the Renaissance," modern Florence is in the center of an intense political and cultural war over the future of Italy's ancient cities. James Miller's Politics in a Museum chronicles the complexities of postwar efforts to achieve economic prosperity in a unique treasure house of European culture. For more than a half a century, the city's elites have struggled over what sort of city Florence should be while individual Florentines--and tourists--have taken a heavy toll on its ancient splendor. Miller 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. This is a book for anyone concerned about the preservation of one of the finest expressions of our Western cultural heritage.
作者簡介
JAMES EDWARD MILLER is a scholar with the European Studies Program of the Foreign Service Institute.
