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The Beautiful Country : Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy
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- Summary
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Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis, The Beautiful Country reveals destination Italy's paramount...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Stephanie Malia Hom
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781442617568, 144261756X, 9781442617551, 1442617551, 1442648724
- OCLC
- ocn913977359, ocn909285559
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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