VECCHIE E NOUVE ÉLITES NELL’AREA DANUBIANO-BALCANICA DEL XIX SECOLO. BY RITA TOLOMEO (ED). SOVERIA MANNELLI: RUBBETTINO, 2011.
VECCHIE E NOUVE ÉLITES NELL’AREA DANUBIANO-BALCANICA DEL XIX SECOLO. BY RITA TOLOMEO (ED). SOVERIA MANNELLI: RUBBETTINO, 2011.

Summary/Abstract: The present volume was published in 2011 at Rubbettino Publishing House, in Italian, under the direction of the historian Rita Tolomeo, Ph.D., a distinguished specialist in the modern history of Europe, professor at the Sapienza University in Rome, interested especially in the diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Russia. This book contains nine studies dedicated to the history of the elites in Central and South-Eastern Europe, which analyze the development of the intelligentsia in the Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Macedonian and Albanian societies, from the fourth decade of the XIXth century until the beginning of the First World War. The historian Andrea Ciampani, Ph.D., professor at Libera Università Maria Ss Assunta (LUMSA) in Rome, wrote in the foreword of the volume that many Italian historians became interested in the history of the elites since 2009, which led to several international conferences and seminaries dedicated to this field, organized in 2009 and 2010. The understanding of the interaction between social, economic and political factors in the modern age is considered to have a crucial role in understanding the history of the elites from Central and South-Eastern Europe, which also sheds a new light on the history of the many peoples who interacted in this region.

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