The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1 [electronic resource] : Travellers and Tourists /
Guégan, Xavier.author.
Farr, M.editor.
Guegan, X.editor.
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Classes of Travel; 1 British Tourists and the Beaches of Europe, from the Eighteenth Century to the 1960s; 2 Is Britishness Always British? Country Houses, Travel and the Cosmopolitan Identity of the British Elite in the Eighteenth Century; 3 Technology, Imperial Connections and Royal Tourism on the Prince of Wales's 1875 Visit to India; Part II: Europe; 4 'On the Continong': Britons Abroad and the 'Business of Travel', 1820-1914
5 The 'Alien' European: British Accounts of Portugal and the Portuguese, 1780-18506 The Lacunae of Heliosis: Package Holidays and the Long 1970s; Part III: The Empire . . .; 7 British Travellers and the Invisibility of Australia's Past, 1868-1910; 8 Securing Shanghai: British Women Artists and 'Their' City; 9 Carry On up the Nile: The Tourist Gaze and the British Experience of Egypt, 1818-1932; Part IV: . . . and Beyond; 10 British Travel Writing and the Japanese Interior, 1854-99; 11 So Near and Yet So Far: British Tourism in Algiers, 1860-1914
12 Lost Horizons: British Travellers to Tibet and the Himalayas in the Twentieth CenturyIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.
Great Britain-History.
Europe-History.
Imperialism.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
European History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.