| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
From romance to patrimony : Breton culture and originality in the nineteenth century tourism, culture and place in a changing Brittany, 1860-1914 -- La Bretagne, au sein de son passé : dilemmas of tourist modernity in the French countryside -- Refashioning Breton costume -- Of pardons, loss and longing : Breton religious processions in an age of tourism and cultural change -- A tasteful patrimony : landscape preservation and tourism in Brittany -- From terre du passé to modern leisure ground? : Brittany in an age of mass tourism -- Epilogue : changing contexts of Bretonnitude, from Vichy to European Union and globalization |
| Summary |
Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This book explores the means by which key actors - middle class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism -- France -- Brittany -- History
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- France -- Brittany
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Bretons -- Ethnic identity
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National characteristics, Breton.
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Regionalism -- France -- Brittany
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Bretons -- Ethnic identity
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Heritage tourism
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National characteristics, Breton
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Regionalism
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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France -- Brittany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012010016 |
| ISBN |
9780754696568 |
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0754696561 |
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1317144066 |
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9781317144069 |
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1315579421 |
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9781315579429 |
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1283572656 |
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9781283572651 |
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9786613885104 |
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661388510X |
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