Italian Venice: A HistoryYale University Press, 30.09.2014 - 329 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Venice to 1866 | 1 |
2 The lights and shadows of Liberal improvement in Venice 18661900 | 23 |
3 Venice in the belle époque | 51 |
4 Venice and its First World War | 77 |
5 Peace and the imposition of Fascism on Venice 19191930 | 105 |
6 Venice between Volpi and Mussolini 19301940 | 135 |
7 Venice Nazifascist war and American peace 19401948 | 158 |
8 The many deaths of postwar Venice 19481978 | 185 |
9 Death postponed through globalised rebirth and mass tourism? | 213 |
Conclusion | 244 |
Notes | 250 |
Bibliography | 290 |
Acknowledgements | 311 |
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