Resorts and ports
Subtitle: European seaside towns since 1700
By: edited by Peter Borsay and John K. Walton
Series: Tourism and cultural change
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845411985; 9781845411978; 9781845411992
Subjects: Tourism; Seaside resorts; Harbors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the resort-port relationship / Peter Borsay and John K. Walton; title: Towns of "health and mirth" : the first seaside resorts, 1730-1769 / Allan Brodie; title: A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a seaside resort, fishing village, and port, c. 1700-1900 / Jan Hein Furnée; title: "From the temple of Hygeia to the sordid devotees of Pluto." The Hotwell and Bristol : resort and port in the eighteenth century / David Hussey; title: Three views of Brighton as a resort / Fred Gray; title: From port to resort : Tenby and narratives of transition, 1760-1914 / Peter Borsay; title: A town divided? sea-bathing, dock-building, and oyster-fishing in nineteenth-century Swansea / Louise Miskell; title: Port and resort : symbiosis and conflict in "Old Whitby," England, since 1880 / John K. Walton; title: Recycled maritime culture and landscape : various aspects of nineteenth-century shipping and fishing industries to twentieth-century tourism in southern Norway / Berit Eide Johnsen; title: Gijcentn : from asturian regional port and industrial city, to touristic and cultural centre; title: For the European Atlantic arc, from the nineteenth century to the present / Guy Saupin; title: From a Baltic village to a leading health resort : reminiscences of the social history of Jurmala, Latvia / Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska; title: From port to resort : art, heritage, and identity in the regeneration of Margate / Jason Wood.