Barbara (Hrsg.) Korte

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

Buch

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 te… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Harvie, C. (Hrsg.) / Schneider, R. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-333-97114-7
EAN: 9780333971147
Produktnummer: 1506831
Verlag: Springer Nature
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 310 S.
Masse: H22.4 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.5 cm 603 g
Auflage: 2. A.
Gewicht: 603

Über den Autor

JOHN BECKERSON Museum Curator, Oral Historian and Researcher for Universities, Heritage Bodies and Government CHLOE CHARD Literary Historian, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles TOBIAS DÖRING Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin ALEXANDER C.T. GEPPERT Research Associate, Department of History, Institute of Florence EVELINE KILIAN Lecturer in English Literature, Tübingen University, Germany HELGA QUADFLIEG Lecturer in English Literature, University of Würzburg, Germany STEPHEN PRICKETT Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Galsgow GERHARD STILZ Professor of English Literature, Tübingen 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.