Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Venice Rediscovered

Venice Rediscovered( )
Author: Pemble, John
ISBN:978-0-19-820501-2
Publication Date:Mar 1995
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Description:

How does a city become an icon? In this engaging and novel book, author John Pemble links Venice's transfiguration over the last 200 years from the shabby relic of a despised tyranny to a great modern cultural symbol to social and intellectual changes in Europe and North America. Analysing the appeal of the city to novelists, historians, and apostles of 'culture,' Pemble demonstrates how changing perceptions of Venice reveal much about the development of modern Western sensibility....
More Description

Book Details
Pages:250
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.38 x 9.5 x 0.955 Inches
Book Weight:1.292 Pounds



Featured Books

I Love You Through and Through
Rossetti-Shustak, Bernadette
Board book: $8.99
The Odyssey
Homer
Hardback: $17.95
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.