Enacting Brittany : tourism and culture in provincial France, 1871-1939 / Patrick Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Patrick, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage tourism--France--Brittany--History.

Heritage tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects--France--Brittany.

Tourism.

Bretons--Ethnic identity.

Bretons.

National characteristics, Breton.

Regionalism--France--Brittany.

Regionalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This book explores the means by which key actors - middle class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will

Contents:

From romance to patrimony : Breton culture and originality in the nineteenth century tourism, culture and place in a changing Brittany, 1860-1914

La Bretagne, au sein de son passé : dilemmas of tourist modernity in the French countryside

Refashioning Breton costume

Of pardons, loss and longing : Breton religious processions in an age of tourism and cultural change

A tasteful patrimony : landscape preservation and tourism in Brittany

From terre du passé to modern leisure ground? : Brittany in an age of mass tourism

Epilogue : changing contexts of Bretonnitude, from Vichy to European Union and globalization.

Notes:

First published 2012 by Ashgate Pub.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-14406-6

1-315-57942-1

1-283-57265-6

9786613885104

0-7546-9656-1

9781315579429

OCLC:

809044639