Evicted from Eternity

Evicted from Eternity
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9780226329079
ISBN-13 : 0226329070
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Book Synopsis Evicted from Eternity by : Michael Herzfeld

Download or read book Evicted from Eternity written by Michael Herzfeld and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.


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