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Resorts and ports : European seaside towns since 1700

Title
Resorts and ports : European seaside towns since 1700 / edited by Peter Borsay and John K. Walton.
Publication
Bristol ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Borsay, Peter
  • Walton, John K.
Description
xv, 218 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Tourism and cultural change
Uniform Title
Tourism and cultural change
Subject
  • Seaside resorts > Europe > History
  • Harbors > Europe > History
  • Tourism > Europe > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction: the resort-port relationship / Peter Borsay and John K. Walton -- Towns of "health and mirth": the first seaside resorts, 1730-1769 / Allan Brodie -- A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a seaside resort, fishing village, and port, c. 1700-1900 / Jan Hein Furnée -- "From the temple of Hygeia to the sordid devotees of Pluto." The Hotwell and Bristol: resort and port in the eighteenth century / David Hussey -- Three views of Brighton as a resort / Fred Gray -- From port to resort: Tenby and narratives of transition, 1760-1914 / Peter Borsay -- A town divided? sea-bathing, dock-building, and oyster-fishing in nineteenth-century Swansea / Louise Miskell -- Port and resort: symbiosis and conflict in "Old Whitby," England, since 1880 / John K. Walton -- Recycled maritime culture and landscape: various aspects of nineteenth-century shipping and fishing industries to twentieth-century tourism in southern Norway / Berit Eide Johnsen -- Gijcentn: from asturian regional port and industrial city, to touristic and cultural centre -- For the European Atlantic arc, from the nineteenth century to the present / Guy Saupin -- From a Baltic village to a leading health resort: reminiscences of the social history of Jurmala, Latvia / Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska -- From port to resort: art, heritage, and identity in the regeneration of Margate / Jason Wood.
ISBN
  • 9781845411985 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1845411986 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781845411978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1845411978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781845411992 (ebook)
  • 1845411994 (ebook)
LCCN
2011027891
OCLC
  • ocn741355068
  • SCSB-1801230
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library