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Title Battlefield tourism : history, place and interpretation / Chris Ryan, editor
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2007

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 MELB  338.4791 Rya/Bth  AVAILABLE
Description xxii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series Advances in tourism research
Advances in tourism research series.
Contents 1 Introduction / Chris Ryan -- 2 Echoes of war : battlefield tourism / Bruce Prideaux -- 3 It's just a bloody field! Approaches, opportunities and dilemmas of interpreting English battlefields / Mark Piekarz -- 4 A proposed code of conduct for war heritage sites / Teresa Leopold -- 5 Jinggangshan Mountain : a paradigm of China's red tourism / Gu Huimin, Chris Ryan and Zhang Wei -- 6 Post-colonial representations of Japanese military heritage : political and social aspects of battlefield tourism in the Pacific and East Asia / Malcolm Cooper -- 7 The battles of Rangiriri and Batoche : Amnesia and memory / Chris Ryan -- 8 Seventy years of waiting : a turning point for interpreting the Spanish Civil War? / Hugh Smith -- 9 The Legerdemain in the rhetoric of battlefield museums : historical pluralism and cryptic Parti Pris / Craig Wight -- 10 World War II and tourism development in Solomon islands / Charlie Panakera -- 11 Xiamen and Kinmen : from cross-border strife to shopping trips / Li-Hui Chang and Chris Ryan -- 12 Hot war tourism : the live battlefield and the ultimate adventure holiday / Mark Piekarz -- 13 Cambridge armistice day celebrations : making a carnival of war and the reality of play / Chris Ryan and Jenny Cave -- 14 Refighting the Eureka Stockade : managing a dissonant battlefield / Warwick Frost -- 15 Re-enacting the Battle of Aiken : honour redeemed / Chris Ryan -- 16 Yorktown and patriot's point, Charleston, South Carolina : interpretation and personal perspectives / Chris Ryan -- 17 Romanticising tragedy : Culloden battle site in Scotland / Fiona McLean, Mary-Catherine Garden and Gordon Urquhart -- 18 Forts Sumter and Moultrie : summer cruise into a catalyst for war / Chris Ryan -- 19 Synthesis and antithesis / Chris Ryan
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272)
Subject Heritage tourism.
Battlefields.
Author Ryan, Chris, 1945-
ISBN 9780080453620 (hbk.)
0080453627 (hbk.)