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Title The making of modern tourism : the cultural history of the British experience, 1600-2000 / edited by Hartmut Berghoff ... [and others]
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2002

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Description xiii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Hartmut Berghoffand Barbara Korte 1 -- Britain and the Making of Modem Tourism -- An Interdisciplinary Approach -- Helga Quadflieg 21 -- Approved Civilities and the Fruits of Peregrination -- Elizabethan and Jacobean Travellers -- and the Making of Englishness -- Chloe Chard 47 -- From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Anxieties -- of Sightseeing -- Stephen Prickett 69 -- Circles and Straight Lines -- Romantic Versions of Tourism -- Gerhard Stilz 85 -- Heroic Travellers - Romantic Landscapes -- The Colonial Sublime in Indian, -- Australian and American Art and Literature -- John K. Walton 109 -- British Tourism Between Industrialization -- and Globalization - An Overview -- -- -- -- John Beckerson 133 -- Marketing British Tourism -- Government Approaches to the Stimulation -- of a Service Sector, 1880-1950 -- Hartmut Berghoff 159 -- From Privilege to Commodity? -- Modem Tourism and the Rise of the Consumer Society -- Sue Wright 181 -- Sun, Sea, Sand and Self-Expression -- Mass Tourism as an Individual Experience -- Christopher Harvie 203 -- Engineer's Holiday: L.T.C. Rolt, -- Industrial Heritage and Tourism -- Alexander C.T. Geppert 223 -- True Copies - Time and Space Travels -- at British Imperial Exhibitions, 1880-1930 -- Tobias Doring 249 -- Travelling in Transience -- The Semiotics of Necro-Tourism -- Eveline Kilian 267 -- Exploring London -- Walking the City - (Re-)Writing the City -- Barbara Korte 285 -- Julian Barnes, England, England -- Tourism as a Critique of Postmodernism
Summary 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 centered around dreams of alternatives to everyday life. The images, which today dominate advertisements for tourist products, had to be constructed and sustained, invented and remolded 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.This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from fields as far apart as literary studies and economic history, who trace the history of tourism from the Renaissance to the present day, combing fresh findings from ongoing research with state-of-the-art surveys
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Travelers -- Great Britain -- History.
Vacations -- Great Britain -- History.
Tourism -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056663
United Kingdom -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056663 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056946
Author Berghoff, Hartmut.
LC no. 2001036489
ISBN 0333971140