The British Seaside
Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century
Seiten
2000
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-5170-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-5170-8 (ISBN)
This is the first detailed academic cultural study of the
rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an
entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts. -- .
The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer bemoaning its decline. This is the first detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts. -- .
rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an
entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts. -- .
The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer bemoaning its decline. This is the first detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts. -- .
Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University
The holidaymakers; travelling to the coast; seaside pleasures; seaside environments; seaside economies; seaside politics.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.8.2000 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Popular Culture |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 156 mm |
| Gewicht | 327 g |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-5170-3 / 0719051703 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-5170-8 / 9780719051708 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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