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Europe within Reach : Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750) / by Gerrit Verhoeven ; translated by Diane Webb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verhoeven, Gerrit, 1980-
- Series:
- Egodocuments and History Series 9.
- Egodocuments and history series, 1873-653X ; v. 9
- Standardized Title:
- Anders reizen. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dutch--Travel--History--Europe--17th century.
- Dutch.
- Dutch--Travel--History--Europe--18th century.
- Flemings--Travel--History--Europe--17th century.
- Flemings.
- Flemings--Travel--History--Europe--18th century.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Netherlands--History--17th century.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Elite (Social sciences)--Netherlands--History--18th century.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Belgium--Flanders--History--17th century.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Belgium--Flanders--History--18th century.
- Grand tours (Education).
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English translation from the Dutch "Anders reizen."
- Summary:
- In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling. Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly. Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Elite Travellers
- 2 Objectives
- 3 Servants
- 4 Other Travellers
- Halfway
- 5 Culture
- 6 History
- 7 Landscapes
- 8 Consumption
- 9 Politics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Places
- Index of Names.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-29333-7
- OCLC:
- 910239388
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004293335 DOI
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