Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 Book

	List of tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The making of the Piedmontese nobility: 1600-1848	13
	From feudal aristocracy to service nobility: 1600-1790	16
	Survival and adaptation in the French revolutionary era	26
	The Indian summer of aristocratic primacy: 1815-1848	33
	Internecine conflict and the end of aristocratic primacy	42
2	The long goodbye: aristocrats in politics and public life: 1848-1914	55
	The place of the aristocracy in the new political order	56
	The slow retreat from political office	64
	The survival of aristocratic influence in public life	71
	Aristocrats and Catholic lay politics in Piedmont	77
	Informal networks of aristocratic influence	82
3	Old money: the scale and structure of aristocratic wealth	89
	The distribution of wealth within the nobility	92
	The structure of aristocratic wealth	104
	The preservation and transfer of aristocratic wealth	114
	Aristocratic wealth and symbolic power	122
4	Perpetuating an aristocratic social elite	126
	The character and dimensions of the aristocratic family	128
	Aristocratic education within the family fortress	136
	Private schools and aristocratic education	139
	An officer and a gentleman: aristocratic career patterns	149
	Aristocratic sociability: the Societa del Whist	155
5	The limits of fusion: aristocratic-bourgeois relations in nineteenth-century Piedmont	162
	Mingling in the public realm	163
	The limits of economic interpenetration	169
	Lineage, wealth, and intermarriage	177
	Cultivating difference: patterns of residence and display	181
	The limits of fusion: gentlemen's clubs and high society	187
6	Retreat and adaptation in the twentieth century	196
	The agricultural crisis and the Piedmontese aristocracy	197
	Changing patterns of aristocratic investment and social behavior	204
	World War I and the economic crisis of the nobility	212
	Aristocratic social reconversion in the inter-war period	219
	Bibliography	226
	Index	241