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The Beautiful Country : Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy / Stephanie Malia Hom.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hom, Stephanie Malia, author.
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies.
- Toronto Italian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Italy--History.
- Tourism.
- Tourism--Political aspects--Italy.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-1756-X
- 1-4426-1755-1
- OCLC:
- 913977359
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