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Abstract
This collection of essays develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and from Frinton to the 'Far East'.
John K. Walton is Professor of Social History at the University of Central Lancashire, and founding president of the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism. He has published widely on British, Spanish and comparative history, with a special interest in the history of seaside resorts, tourism and regional identities. His books include The English Seaside Resort: A Social History, 1750-1914 (Leicester, 1983), Blackpool (Edinburgh, 1998); The British Seaside: holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century (Manchester, 2000); and (with Professor Gary Cross) The Playful Crowd (New York, forthcoming 2005).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| The Contributors | vii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 Empires of Travel: British Guide Books and Cultural Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries1 | 19 | ||
| Chapter 2 ‘How and Where To Go’: The Role of Travel Journalism in Britain and the Evolution of Foreign Tourism, 1840–1914 | 39 | ||
| Chapter 3 Selling Air: Marketing the Intangible at British Resorts | 55 | ||
| Chapter 4 Tourism in Augustan Society (44 BC–AD 69) | 69 | ||
| Chapter 5 A Century of Tourism in Northern Spain: The Development of High-quality Provision between 1815 and 1914 | 88 | ||
| Chapter 6 Japanese Tea Party: Representations of Victorian Paradise and Playground in The Geisha (1896) | 104 | ||
| Chapter 7 Radical Nationalism in an International Context: Strength through Joy and the Paradoxes of Nazi Tourism | 125 | ||
| Chapter 8 ‘Travel in Merry Germany’: Tourism in the Third Reich | 144 | ||
| Chapter 9 Coffee, Klimt and Climbing: Constructing an Austrian National Identity in Tourist Literature, 1918–38 | 162 | ||
| Chapter 10 Paradise Lost and Found: Tourists and Expatriates in El Terreno, Palma de Mallorca, from the 1920s to the 1950s | 179 | ||
| Chapter 11 ‘50 Places Rolled into 1’: The Development of Domestic Tourism at Pleasure Grounds in Inter-war England1 | 195 | ||
| Chapter 12 Public Beaches and Private Beach Huts – A Case Study of Inter-war Clacton and Frinton, Essex LAURA CHASE | 211 | ||
| Chapter 13 ‘The Most Magical Corner of England’: Tourism, Preservation and the Development of the Lake District, 1919–39 | 228 |