Exploring travel and tourism : essays on journeys and destinations / edited by Jennifer Erica Sweda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sweda, Jennifer Erica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--History.

Tourism.

History.

Travelers' writings--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings.

Physical Description:

viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction / Jennifer Erica Sweda

A beautiful savage picture : adventure travel, ethnology, and imperialism in nineteenth-century Borneo / Matthew Schauer

Self-fashioning in the nineteenth-century American literary scene and the travels of N.P. Willis / Cansu O. Ozmen Pushkin

Re/Negotiating gender, tourist, and national subjectivities in Edith Walker's 1888-1889 travelogue / Jennifer Erica Sweda

The Antebellum South in Fredrika Bremer's travel letters / Sirpa Salenius

George Washington Carleton and Our artist in Cuba : A commentary on (American) slavery / Sarah Holian

Branding a new nation : Czechoslovakia's use of industrial tourists / Donald A. Hempson III

Beaded heritage : tourism, gender, and development in post-apartheid South Africa / Mary C. Klann

Toy histories and regional flavor : the effects of cultural tourism in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things / Lacy Marschalk

Trains to Niagara : railroads at the culture of tourism, 1820-1860 / Richard H. Gassan

The rider stories of randonneurs : pilgrims' tales that constitute a virtual community / Janice Chernekoff

Tartans, kilts and clans on tour : exploring issues of mobility, heritage and cultural homecomings at The Gathering 2009 / Karalee Dawn MacKay

Re-creating Rushmore : The Enchanted Highway of North Dakota / Joshua Fisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1443837946

9781443837941

OCLC:

782108010

Publisher Number:

99949594186