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The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000by Hartmut Berghoff
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Synopsis:This transdisciplinary volume traces the history of tourism from the Renaissance to the present day, combining the findings of historical and literary research. About the AuthorHartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Ralf Schneider is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Christopher Harvie is Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Table of ContentsHartmut Berghoff and Barbara Korte * Britain and the Making of Modern Tourism - An Interdisciplinary Approach * Helga Quadflieg * Approved Civilities and the Fruits of Peregrination - Elizabethan and Jacobean Travelers and the making of Englishness * Chloe Chard * From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Anxieties of Sightseeing * Stephen Prickett * Circles and Straight Lines - Romantic Versions of Tourism * Gerhard Stilz * Heroic Travelers - Romantic Landscapes - The Colonial Sublime in Indian, Australian and American Art and Literature * John K. Walton * British Tourism Between Industrialization and Globalization - An Overview * John Beckerson * Marketing British Tourism - Government Approaches to the Stimulation of a Service Sector, 1880-1950 * Hartmut Berghoff * From Privilege to Commodity? - Modern Tourism and the Rise of the Consumer Society * Sue Wright * Sun, Sea, Sand and Self-Expression - Mass Tourism as an Individual Experience * Christopher Harvie * Engineer's Holiday: L.T.C. Rolt, Industrial Heritage and Tourism * Alexander C.T. Geppert * True copies - Time and Space Travels at British Imperial Exhibitions, 1880-1930 * Tobias Doring * Travelling in Transience - The Semiotics of Necro-Tourism * Eveline Kilian * Exploring London - Walking the City - (Re-) Writing the City * Barbara Korte * Julian Barnes, England, England - Tourism as a Critique of Postmodernism * Index Hartmut Berghoff and Barbara Korte * Britain and the Making of Modern Tourism - An Interdisciplinary Approach * Helga Quadflieg * Approved Civilities and the Fruits of Peregrination - Elizabethan and Jacobean Travelers and the making of Englishness * Chloe Chard * From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Anxieties of Sightseeing * Stephen Prickett * Circles and Straight Lines - Romantic Versions of Tourism * Gerhard Stilz * Heroic Travelers - Romantic Landscapes - The Colonial Sublime in Indian, Australian and American Art and Literature * John K. Walton British Tourism Between Industrialization and Globalization - An Overview * John Beckerson * Marketing British Tourism - Government Approaches to the Stimulation of a Service Sector, 1880-1950 * Hartmut Berghoff From Privilege to Commodity? - Modern Tourism and the Rise of the Consumer Society * Sue Wright * Sun, Sea, Sand and Self-Expression - Mass Tourism as an Individual Experience * Christopher Harvie * Engineer's Holiday: L.T.C. Rolt, Industrial Heritage and Tourism * Alexander C.T. Geppert * True copies - Time and Space Travels at British Imperial Exhibitions, 1880-1930 * Tobias Doring Travelling in Transience - The Semiotics of Necro-Tourism * Eveline Kilian Exploring London - Walking the City - (Re-) Writing the City * Barbara Korte * Julian Barnes, England, England - Tourism as a Critique of Postmodernism * Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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