Questo lavoro si propone di andare oltre le tradizionali conoscenze della storiografia riguardo Vincenzo Stefano Breda, figura di spiccato rilievo nel panorama del secondo Ottocento italiano. Il suo nome è giustamente associato alla sua più importante realizzazione in campo industriale: il complesso siderurgico di Terni, sorto nel 1884 sotto la regia politica di Benedetto Brin. Si sono ricostruiti aspetti sino ad ora poco conosciuti della vita di Breda come ad esempio il suo ruolo all’interno dei circuiti dell’associazionismo dei veterani del Risorgimento e la sua attività parlamentare. Da questo approccio iniziale di tipo biografico il lavoro muove alla ricerca dei motivi ideologici che portarono i governi dell’ultimo quarto dell’Ottocento a costruire il primo complesso militar-industriale dell’Italia unita.
The aim of this work is to overcome the traditional historiographical knowledge about Vincenzo Stefano Breda, who was a relevant person in the Italian national scenario during the second half of the 19th century. His name is rightly associated with his most relevant industrial achievement: the steelworks of Terni, founded in 1884, under the political guide of Benedetto Brin. Here are revived some aspects of Breda’s life which were not very well known so far (e.g. his role in the associations of the veterans of the Risorgimento and his activity as a Member of Parliament). Starting from this initial biographical approach, this work leads to the investigation of the ideological motives which led the Italian Governments, in the last decades of the 19th century, to build the first military-industrial complex of the united Italy.
Vincenzo Stefano Breda: memoria del risorgimento, nazionalismo e industrializzazione
BORIN, Dennis
2009-01-01
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The aim of this work is to overcome the traditional historiographical knowledge about Vincenzo Stefano Breda, who was a relevant person in the Italian national scenario during the second half of the 19th century. His name is rightly associated with his most relevant industrial achievement: the steelworks of Terni, founded in 1884, under the political guide of Benedetto Brin. Here are revived some aspects of Breda’s life which were not very well known so far (e.g. his role in the associations of the veterans of the Risorgimento and his activity as a Member of Parliament). Starting from this initial biographical approach, this work leads to the investigation of the ideological motives which led the Italian Governments, in the last decades of the 19th century, to build the first military-industrial complex of the united Italy.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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