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Davis Robert C (Robert Charles), <1948-> |
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Venice, the tourist maze [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural critique of the world's most touristed city / / Robert C. Davis and Garry R. Marvin |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
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9786612763021 |
1-282-76302-4 |
1-59734-975-5 |
1-4175-4506-2 |
0-520-93780-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Travelers - Italy - Venice - History |
Tourism - Italy - Venice - History |
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Venice (Italy) Description and travel |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note to Readers -- Introduction. The City Built on the Sea -- PART ONE. Timescape -- PART TWO. Landscape -- PART THREE. Seascape -- PART FOUR. Worldscape -- Afterword. Chi ciapa schei xe contento -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed-a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare |
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