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Italian Venice : a history /

"In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice--not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of moderniz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bosworth, R. J. B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Awaiting an Italian destiny : Venice to 1866
  • The lights and shadows of Liberal improvement in Venice, 1866-1900
  • Venice in the belle époque
  • Venice and its First World War
  • Peace and the imposition of Fascism on Venice, 1919-1930
  • Venice between Volpi and Mussolini, 1930-1940
  • Venice, Nazi-fascist war and American peace, 1940-1948
  • The many deaths of post-war Venice, 1948-1978
  • Death postponed through globalised rebirth (and mass tourism)?
  • Conclusion.