The Beautiful Country : Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy / / Stephanie Malia Hom
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| Autore: |
Hom Stephanie Malia
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| Titolo: |
The Beautiful Country : Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy / / Stephanie Malia Hom
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.479145 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tourism - Italy - History |
| Tourism - Political aspects - Italy | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Italy |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Electronic books. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Codes of travel : Italy's guidebook tradition -- Italian montage : on rhetoric and representations -- Destination nation : the grand tour, Thomas Cook, and the arrival of mass tourism -- Tours of duty : touring clubs, fascist agencies, and the domestic tourism industry -- Masses in transit : the new economy of tourism in the twentieth century -- Italy without borders : simulacra, simulation, and the postmodern grand tour -- Postmodern passages : souvenirs, theme parks, outlet malls, and the body of the simulated nation. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis, The Beautiful Country reveals destination Italy's paramount role in the creation of modern mass tourism. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Beautiful Country |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-1756-X |
| 1-4426-1755-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787345303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Toronto Italian studies.