The beautiful country : tourism and the impossible state of destination Italy / Stephanie Malia Hom

Author: Hom, Stephanie Malia
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Copyright Date: ©2015
Physical Description: xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Toronto Italian studies

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.

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ISBN

9781442648722 (bound)
1442648724 (bound)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-292) and index.

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