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The beautiful country : tourism and the state of destination, Italy /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hom, Stephanie Malia, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.