The making of modern tourism : the cultural history of the British experience, 1600-2000
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The making of modern tourism : the cultural history of the British experience, 1600-2000
Palgrave, 2002
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Other editors: Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Christopher Harvie
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At the end of the twentieth century, tourism is the world's largest single industry. Tourism, however, is not only an economic and social phenomenon but can be 'read' in semiotic terms centred around dreams of alternatives to everyday life. The images, which today dominate advertisements for tourist products, had to be constructed and sustained, invented and remoulded over a long historical process. It seems that without this distinctive historical and cultural 'baggage' the remarkable social practice of taking holidays would not have evolved. Even if tourism saw its most spectacular development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in terms of the numbers involved, it rests on a cultural foundation inaugurated in the early modern period. The Making of Modern Tourism was a long-term process, deeply rooted in the cultural and intellectual, economic and social history of Britain.
Table of Contents
- Britain and the Making of Modern Tourism: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- H.Berghoff & B.Korte Approved Civilities and the Fruits of Peregrination: Elizabethan and Jacobean Travellers and the Making of Englishness
- H.Quadflieg From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Anxieties of Sightseeing
- C.Chard Circles and Straight Lines: Romantic Versions of Tourism
- S.Prickett Heroic Travellers, Romantic Landscapes: The Colonial Sublime in Indian, Australian and American Art and Literature
- G.Stilz British Tourism Between Industrialization and Globalization: An Overview
- J.K.Walton Marketing British Tourism: Government Approaches to the Stimulation of a Service Sector, 1880-1950
- J.Beckerson From Privilege to Commodity? Modern Tourism and the Rise of the Consumer Society
- H.Berghoff Sun, Sea, Sand and Self-Expression: Mass Tourism as an Individual Experience
- S.Wright Engineer's Holiday: L.T.C. Rolt, Industrial Heritage and Tourism
- C.Harvie True Copies: Time and Space Travels at British Imperial Exhibitions, 1880-1930
- A.C.T. Geppert Travelling in Transience
- T.Doering Exploring London: Walking the City-(Re-)Writing the City
- E.Kilian Julian Barnes, England, England : Tourism as a Critique of Postmodernism
- B.Korte Index
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