The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000 by Korte, Barbara

The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333971147)

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The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000 by Korte, Barbara

The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000

$109.99
The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000 by Korte, Barbara

The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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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 centred around dreams of alternatives to everyday life. The images, which today dominate advertisements for tourist products, had to be constructed and sustained, invented and remoulded 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.

Author: Barbara Korte
ISBN-10: 0333971140
ISBN-13: 9780333971147
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2002
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.74w x 0.98d
By Barbara Korte
By Barbara Korte
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JOHN BECKERSON Museum Curator, Oral Historian and Researcher for Universities, Heritage Bodies and Government CHLOE CHARD Literary Historian, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles TOBIAS DﾖRING Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, Freie Universit舩, Berlin ALEXANDER C.T. GEPPERT Research Associate, Department of History, Institute of Florence EVELINE KILIAN Lecturer in English Literature, T?ingen University, Germany HELGA QUADFLIEG Lecturer in English Literature, University of W?zburg, Germany STEPHEN PRICKETT Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Galsgow GERHARD STILZ Professor of English Literature, T?ingen University, Germany JOHN WALTON Professor of Social History and Director of Research in History, University of Central Lancashire SUE WRIGHT Doctoral Scholar, History Department, Sheffield Hallam University.

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