Being elsewhere : tourism, consumer culture, and identity in modern Europe and North America / Shelley Baranowski and Ellen Furlough, editors
Contributors: Baranowski, Shelley; Furlough, Ellen, 1953-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Tourism -- Europe; Tourism -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Tourism, bourgeois identity, and the politics of nation building.  The tactics of retreat: spa vacations and bourgeois identity in nineteenth-century France / Douglas P. Mackaman ; Selling Lourdes: pilgrimage, tourism, and the mass-marketing of the sacred in nineteenth-century France / Suzanne K. Kaufman ; The chamber of commerce's carnival: city festivals and urban tourism in the United States, 1890-1915 / Catherine Cocks ; Tourism in late imperial Austria: the development of tourist cultures and their associated images of place / Jill Steward; title: Pt. 2. Tourism, mass mobilization, and the nation-state.  Know your country: a comparative perspective on tourism and nation building in Sweden / Orvar Löfgren ; Seeing the nature of America: the national parks as national assets, 1914-1929 / Marguerite S. Shaffer ; A "New Deal" for leisure: making mass tourism during the Great Depression / Michael Berkowitz; title: Strength through joy: tourism and national integration in the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski; title: Pt. 3. Global mass tourism and the representation of place.  French cultural tourism and the Vichy problem / Bertram M. Gordon ; Consuming the beach: seaside resorts and cultures of tourism in England and Spain from the 1840s to the 1930s / John K. Walton ; Culture for export: tourism and autoethnography in postwar Britain / James Buzard ; "Everybody likes Canadians": Canadians, Americans, and the post-World War II travel boom / Karen Dubinsky ; La Grande Motte: regional development, tourism, and the state / Ellen Furlough and Rosemary Wakeman