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The British abroad since the eighteenth century. Volume 1, : Travellers and tourists / edited by Martin Farr and Xavier Guégan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Britain and the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British--Travel--Foreign countries--History--Congresses.
- British.
- Tourists--Great Britain--Attitudes--Congresses.
- Tourists.
- British--Foreign countries--History--Congresses.
- Travelers--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Travelers.
- National characteristics, British--Congresses.
- National characteristics, British.
- History.
- British--Foreign countries.
- British--Travel.
- Foreign countries.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 267 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Travellers and tourists
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century is a two-volume collection of new essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of travel, tourism, and imperialism. The British Abroad considers the British traveling beyond their Isles over the last 300 years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration - and exploitation - of other lands and peoples, and also through their encounters with other societies and civilisations. The development into new forms of travel and tourism challenged the perceptions the British had of the world - and the world of the British. These journeys impacted on the representation and formation of 'Britishness' and the construction of national identity by defining a non-British world or a world becoming 'British'. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Martin Farr and Xavier Guégan
- Classes of Travel
- British tourists and the beaches of Europe, from the eighteenth century to the 1960s / John K. Walton
- Is Britishness always British? Country houses, travel and the cosmopolitan identity of the British elite in the eighteenth century / Stephanie Barczewski
- Technology, imperial connections, and royal tourism on the Prince of Wales's 1875 visit to India / Joe De Sapio
- Europe
- "On the Continong": Britons abroad and the "business of travel": 1820-1914 / Jill Steward
- The "alien" European: British accounts of Portugal and the Portuguese, 1780-1850 / Maria Clara Paulino
- The Lacunae of Heliosis: package holidays and the long 1970s / Martin Farr
- The Empire...
- British travellers and the invisibility of Australia's past 1868-1910 / Richard White
- Securing Shanghai: British women artists and "their" city / Catherine MacKenzie
- Carry on up the Nile: the tourist gaze and the British experience of Egypt, 1818-1932 / Peter Lyth
- ...And beyond
- British travel writing and the Japanese interior, 1854-99 / Andrew Elliot
- So near and yet so far: British tourism in Algiers, 1860-1914 / Kenneth J. Perkins
- Lost horizons: British travellers to Tibet and the Himalayas in the twentieth century / Tom Neuhaus.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 9781137304155
- 1137304154
- Publisher Number:
- 99958954412
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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