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A Cultural History of Leisure presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of leisure from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising:
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity (500BC-500AD)Not available to be shipped via Media Mail
Peter Borsay is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University, UK, a member of the advisory boards of Urban History and the Journal of Tourism History, and a committee member of the British Pre-Modern Towns Group. His books include The English Urban Renaissance (1989); The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage and History (2000); and A History of Leisure: The British Experience since 1500 (2006). He has co-edited Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700 (2011) and Leisure Cultures in Urban Europe, c. 1700-1870: A Transnational Perspective (2016).
Jan Hein Furnée is Chair of European Cultural History at Radboud University, The Netherlands. He is the editor, together with Peter Borsay, of Leisure Cultures in Urban Europe, c. 1700-1870: A Transnational Perspective (2016) and the editor, together with Clé Lesger, of The Landscape of Consumption: Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900 (2014).Thanks for subscribing!
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