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This collection of essays develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and from Frinton to the 'Far East'.

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• Introduction
• 1 Empires of Travel: British Guide Books and Cultural Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• 2 'How and Where To Go': The Role of Travel Journalism in Britain and the Evolution of Foreign Tourism, 1840-1914
• 3 Selling Air: Marketing the Intangible at British Resorts
• 4 Tourism in Augustan Society (44 BC-AD 69)
• 5 A Century of Tourism in Northern Spain: The Development of High-quality Provision between 1815 and 1914
• 6 Japanese Tea Party: Representations of Victorian Paradise and Playground in The Geisha (1896)
• 7 Radical Nationalism in an International Context: Strength through Joy and the Paradoxes of Nazi Tourism
• 8 'Travel in Merry Germany': Tourism in the Third Reich
• 9 Coffee, Klimt and Climbing: Constructing an Austrian National Identity in Tourist Literature 1918-38
• 10 Paradise Lost and Found: Tourists and Expatriates in El Terreno, Palma de Mallorca, from the 1920s to the 1950s
• 11 '50 Places Rolled into 1': The Development of Domestic Tourism at Pleasure Grounds in Inter-war England
• 12 Public Beaches and Private Beach Huts: A Case Study of Inter-war Clacton and Frinton, Essex
• 13 'The Most Magical Corner of England': Tourism, Preservation and the Development of the Lake District, 1919-39

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Although people have traveled for pleasure for thousands of years, only recently have historians begun to recognize this as a legitimate area of research. (See Lynn Withey's Grand Tours and Cooks' Tours, 1997.) These 13 essays by a disparate group of researchers is an excellent introduction to the type of travel and tourism studies being undertaken today. Seven of the essays concentrate on 19th- and 20th-century Britain, two on Nazi Germany, three on other areas of modern European tourism, and one that indicates tourism has its roots in the ancient world. Effectively introducing the subject and tying the essays together is editor Walton's excellent introduction, which emphasizes both the growing visibility of tourism history and its interdisciplinary appeal. The study of tourism provides another approach to the past. How did particular societies encourage (or discourage) tourists? What prompted people to visit? How did tourists react to what they saw? These are just a few of the questions raised by these essays, which treat subjects as diverse as how Nazi Germany took control of tourism to further its ideological ends to the conflict in England's Lake District between preservation and development in the 1920s and 1930s. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. D. R. Jamieson Ashland University

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John K. Walton is Professor of Social History at the University of Central Lancashire, and founding president of the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism. He has published widely on British, Spanish and comparative history, with a special interest in the history of seaside resorts, tourism and regional identities. His books include The English Seaside Resort: A Social History, 1750-1914 (Leicester, 1983), Blackpool (Edinburgh, 1998); The British Seaside: holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century (Manchester, 2000); and (with Professor Gary Cross) The Playful Crowd (New York, forthcoming 2005).