Italian Venice: A History

by Richard J.B. Bosworth

Book Overview

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 poque 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300216122
• ISBN13: 9780300216127
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.7"