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LEADER: 02813cam a2200385 i 4500
001 2014018999
003 DLC
005 20150522084457.0
008 140515s2014 ctua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014018999
020 $a9780300193879 (cloth : alkaline paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aDG678.5$b.B67 2014
082 00 $a945/.31109$223
084 $aHIS020000$aHIS037060$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBosworth, R. J. B.
245 10 $aItalian Venice :$ba history /$cR.J.B. Bosworth.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c2014.
300 $axxi, 329 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice--not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the 'Disneylandification' of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes--the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice's history but its meanings, and how the city's past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 290-310) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Awaiting an Italian destiny : Venice to 1866 -- The lights and shadows of Liberal improvement in Venice, 1866-1900 -- Venice in the belle époque -- Venice and its First World War -- Peace and the imposition of Fascism on Venice, 1919-1930 -- Venice between Volpi and Mussolini, 1930-1940 -- Venice, Nazi-fascist war and American peace, 1940-1948 -- The many deaths of post-war Venice, 1948-1978 -- Death postponed through globalised rebirth (and mass tourism)? -- Conclusion.
651 0 $aVenice (Italy)$xHistory$y1797-1866.
651 0 $aVenice (Italy)$xHistory$y1866-
651 0 $aVenice (Italy)$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aSocial change$zItaly$zVenice$xHistory.
651 0 $aVenice (Italy)$xPolitics and government.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Italy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh