Venice, the Tourist Maze A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City

Name: Venice, the Tourist Maze A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City
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ISBN: 9780520241206

ISBN-10: 0520241207

ISBN-13: 9780520241206

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert C. Davis, Garry R. Marvin

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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 0.71" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note to Readers


Introduction: The City Built on the Sea



Timescape



Pilgrims' Rest



Strumpets and Trumps



Landscape



The Heart of the Matter



Lost in the Labyrinth



Contested Ground



Seascape



The Floating Signifier



Behind the Stage



Dangerous Waters



Worldscape



Restoration Comedies



Ships and Fools



Taking It All Home


Afterword: Chi ciapa schei xe contento


Notes


Bibliography


Index