Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism

by Brian L. McLaren

Book Overview

To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern metropolitan culture brought its systems of transportation and accommodation, as well as new hierarchies of political and social control. Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya shows how Italian authorities used the contradictory forces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295741414
• ISBN13: 9780295741413
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher