The Beautiful Country : Tourism and the Impossible 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
Autor principal: Hom, Stephanie Malia, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tourism > Political aspects.
Tourism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Tourism > Political aspects > Italy.
Tourism > Italy > History.
Italy.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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