Joshua Arthurs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Arthurs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthurs |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHURS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Urban Landscape in the Third Rome
The Way We Were’
This article shows the benefits to be drawn by applying to Fascist Italy an approach that has emerged within the German literature on Nazism within the field of Alltagsgeschichte or the history of everyday life. That approach has the potential to counter a nostalgic, rose-tinted and depoliticized view of life under Fascism, which has arisen in Italian public discourse since the crisis of anti-Fascism in the 1990s. Through a series of vignettes, t…
The Eternal City
The anatomy of controversy, from Charlottesville to Rome
This article compares two recent memory controversies in the United States and Italy – the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia and the Legge Fiano, the abortive ban on Fascist propaganda proposed by Emanuele Fiano and the Partito Democratico – in order to identify a common set of challenges now confronting liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic. While acknowledging the longue durée of memory politics surrou…
Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen. Italian Modernities
Alexander Stille once described modern Italy as a “laboratory of bad ideas that have then spread to other parts of the world” (The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi [2006], 10). Fascism and the Mafia were born in Italy; so, too, was a new brand of politics centered on a media-savvy, follicle-challenged plutocrat given to outrageous statements …
The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy
Under the Fascist regime, maternity became a public duty toward the state. Under the regime’s legal reforms, abortion was classified within the new category of crimes against “the integrity and the health of the race.” No fewer than 11 articles were dedicated to abortion practices, instigation, sterilization, and venereal disease. Prohibition extended to all means of prevention or interruption of pregnancy. Nevertheless, despite the emphasis on t…
The Excavatory Intervention
The Excavatory Intervention: Archaeology and the Chronopolitics of Roman Antiquity in Fascist Italy Romanità – the invocation of the «eternal Roman spirit» – has long been recognised as a core component of Italian Fascist ideology and political culture. However, the «cult of Rome» is typically seen as an expression of the regime's theatricality, its retrograde tendencies and its hostility to modernity. This contribution argues that, on the contra…
Settling Accounts
The fall of Mussolini on 25 July 1943, and the concomitant collapse of the Fascist regime, have long been recognized as a pivotal moment in the Second World War and, indeed, contemporary Italian history. To date, however, these events have been viewed almost exclusively ‘from above’, in terms of elite politics, international diplomacy, and military strategy. Drawing on the analytical frameworks of Alltagsgeschichte (‘everyday history’), the prese…
Lorenzo Benadusi, The Enemy of the New Man
Antonino De Francesco. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation
Journal Article Antonino De Francesco. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation: The Cultural Origins of a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796–1943. Get access Antonino De Francesco. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation: The Cultural Origins of a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796–1943. (Classical Presences.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii, 266. $99.00. Joshua Arthurs Joshua Arthurs West Virginia University [email protected].…
Michael R. Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy
Excavating Modernity
The cultural and material legacies of the Roman Republic and Empire in evidence throughout Rome have made it the "Eternal City." Too often, however, this patrimony has caused Rome to be seen as static and antique, insulated from the transformations of the modern world. In Excavating Modernity , Joshua Arthurs dramatically revises this perception, arguing that as both place and idea, Rome was strongly shaped by a radical vision of modernity impose…
Excavating modernity
Moderns Abroad
Mia Fuller (2007) Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism (London: Routledge), 274 pp., ISBN 9780415194631, $88.00, hard cover Mia Fuller's Moderns Abroad accomplishes many thi
Pride in Modesty
Michelangelo Sabatino (2010) Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 336 pp., ISBN 9780802097057, $70.00, hard cover T
World’s Fairs Italian Style
The Excavatory Intervention
The Excavatory Intervention: Archaeology and the Chronopolitics of Roman Antiquity in Fascist Italy Romanità – the invocation of the «eternal Roman spirit» – has long been recognised as a core component of Italian Fascist ideology and political culture. However, the «cult of Rome» is typically seen as an expression of the regime's theatricality, its retrograde tendencies and its hostility to modernity. This contribution argues that, on the contra…
Excavating Modernity
The cultural and material legacies of the Roman Republic and Empire in evidence throughout Rome have made it the "Eternal City." Too often, however, this patrimony has caused Rome to be seen as static and antique, insulated from the transformations of the modern world. In Excavating Modernity , Joshua Arthurs dramatically revises this perception, arguing that as both place and idea, Rome was strongly shaped by a radical vision of modernity impose…
Settling Accounts
The fall of Mussolini on 25 July 1943, and the concomitant collapse of the Fascist regime, have long been recognized as a pivotal moment in the Second World War and, indeed, contemporary Italian history. To date, however, these events have been viewed almost exclusively ‘from above’, in terms of elite politics, international diplomacy, and military strategy. Drawing on the analytical frameworks of Alltagsgeschichte (‘everyday history’), the prese…
Pride in Modesty
Michelangelo Sabatino (2010) Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 336 pp., ISBN 9780802097057, $70.00, hard cover T
World’s Fairs Italian Style
Moderns Abroad
Mia Fuller (2007) Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism (London: Routledge), 274 pp., ISBN 9780415194631, $88.00, hard cover Mia Fuller's Moderns Abroad accomplishes many thi
Pride in Modesty
Michelangelo Sabatino (2010) Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 336 pp., ISBN 9780802097057, $70.00, hard cover T
Excavating modernity
Michael R. Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy
Excavating Modernity
The cultural and material legacies of the Roman Republic and Empire in evidence throughout Rome have made it the "Eternal City." Too often, however, this patrimony has caused Rome to be seen as static and antique, insulated from the transformations of the modern world. In Excavating Modernity , Joshua Arthurs dramatically revises this perception, arguing that as both place and idea, Rome was strongly shaped by a radical vision of modernity impose…
Lorenzo Benadusi, The Enemy of the New Man
Antonino De Francesco. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation
Journal Article Antonino De Francesco. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation: The Cultural Origins of a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796–1943. Get access Antonino De Francesco. The Antiquity of the Italian Nation: The Cultural Origins of a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796–1943. (Classical Presences.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii, 266. $99.00. Joshua Arthurs Joshua Arthurs West Virginia University [email protected].…
The Excavatory Intervention
The Excavatory Intervention: Archaeology and the Chronopolitics of Roman Antiquity in Fascist Italy Romanità – the invocation of the «eternal Roman spirit» – has long been recognised as a core component of Italian Fascist ideology and political culture. However, the «cult of Rome» is typically seen as an expression of the regime's theatricality, its retrograde tendencies and its hostility to modernity. This contribution argues that, on the contra…
Settling Accounts
The fall of Mussolini on 25 July 1943, and the concomitant collapse of the Fascist regime, have long been recognized as a pivotal moment in the Second World War and, indeed, contemporary Italian history. To date, however, these events have been viewed almost exclusively ‘from above’, in terms of elite politics, international diplomacy, and military strategy. Drawing on the analytical frameworks of Alltagsgeschichte (‘everyday history’), the prese…
The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy
Under the Fascist regime, maternity became a public duty toward the state. Under the regime’s legal reforms, abortion was classified within the new category of crimes against “the integrity and the health of the race.” No fewer than 11 articles were dedicated to abortion practices, instigation, sterilization, and venereal disease. Prohibition extended to all means of prevention or interruption of pregnancy. Nevertheless, despite the emphasis on t…
Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen. Italian Modernities
Alexander Stille once described modern Italy as a “laboratory of bad ideas that have then spread to other parts of the world” (The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi [2006], 10). Fascism and the Mafia were born in Italy; so, too, was a new brand of politics centered on a media-savvy, follicle-challenged plutocrat given to outrageous statements …
The anatomy of controversy, from Charlottesville to Rome
This article compares two recent memory controversies in the United States and Italy – the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia and the Legge Fiano, the abortive ban on Fascist propaganda proposed by Emanuele Fiano and the Partito Democratico – in order to identify a common set of challenges now confronting liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic. While acknowledging the longue durée of memory politics surrou…
The Way We Were’
This article shows the benefits to be drawn by applying to Fascist Italy an approach that has emerged within the German literature on Nazism within the field of Alltagsgeschichte or the history of everyday life. That approach has the potential to counter a nostalgic, rose-tinted and depoliticized view of life under Fascism, which has arisen in Italian public discourse since the crisis of anti-Fascism in the 1990s. Through a series of vignettes, t…
The Eternal City
Urban Landscape in the Third Rome
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (13 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · European history and politics (5 works)