Power And Politics At The Seaside
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Power And Politics At The Seaside
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Author : Nigel Morgan
language : en
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Release Date : 1999
Power And Politics At The Seaside written by Nigel Morgan and has been published by University of Exeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
The seaside is the 20th century's pre-eminent global tourism site and this work examines political and power relations in modern seaside resort development. As an historical study of seaside tourism in Devon - England's most popular domestic holiday desitination - it reveals the complex interplay between ideology, class and power and the comsumption of landscape and place.
Power And Politics At The Colonial Seaside
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Author : Shuk-Wah Poon
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-02
Power And Politics At The Colonial Seaside written by Shuk-Wah Poon and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with History categories.
A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong. British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and later of cultural change, promoting imperial union and then postimperial goodwill. Poon analyses the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and nationalism, respectively, transformed the Hong Kong seaside into a leisure space. She argues that the growing popularity of seaside resorts and sea bathing as a preferred form of leisure activity across the social and ethnic spectrums served an important role in shaping the racial relationship between Westerners and the Chinese population, as well as the Chinese people’s perception of the female body and the seaside, during the colonial period. The popularity of British leisure forms in colonial Hong Kong does not necessarily mean the triumph of “Britishness.” This book will be of great interest to historians with an interest in leisure and in Empire and Colonialism, as well as historians of Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China.
The Playful Crowd
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Author : Gary S. Cross
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Playful Crowd written by Gary S. Cross and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
From 'Sodoms by the sea' at Coney Island & Blackpool to carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment, this new history compares the pursuit of pleasure on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Seaside
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Author : Madeleine Bunting
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2023-05-04
The Seaside written by Madeleine Bunting and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-04 with Social Science categories.
England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy beaches, salt marshes, and estuaries cutting deep inland. On these coastal edges England's great holiday resorts grew up, developed in the early eighteenth century originally as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphing into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure. Acclaimed writer Madeleine Bunting journeyed clockwise around England from Scarborough to Blackpool to understand the enduring appeal of seaside towns, and what has happened to the golden sands, cold seas and donkey rides of childhood memory. Taking in some forty resorts, staying in hotels, caravans and holiday camps, she swims from their beaches and talks to their residents to delve into their landscapes, histories and contemporary plight. Once thriving, innovative places and leaders of architectural innovation, many are now struggling with the deepest deprivation and ill health in the country. Yet they still act as a bellwether for our nation, and in the stories of their poverty and neglect, Bunting finds that these holiday towns - so influential in England's history and in the shaping of our national identity - speak powerfully to the character and political state of England today.
Port Cities In Asia And Europe
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language : en
Publisher: Routledge
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Port Cities In Asia And Europe written by and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Art And Identity At The Water S Edge
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Author : Tricia Cusack
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Art And Identity At The Water S Edge written by Tricia Cusack and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places at various times and how this process contributed to the formation of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture, maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore successive ideological mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech cubist architecture and painting shaped a new nationalist reading of the Vltava riverbanks. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses, and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the construction of cultural and national identities.
Relocating Britishness
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Author : Stephen Caunce
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-27
Relocating Britishness written by Stephen Caunce and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-27 with History categories.
Offering a range of original perspectives on how Britishness might be constructed at the turn of the millennium and where it might be going, this volume pulls together various disciplines and a variety of geographical perspectives to offer a distinctive set of views for the understanding of Britishness and how it is expressed.
Mid Century Modernism In Turkey
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Author : Meltem Ö Gürel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-05
Mid Century Modernism In Turkey written by Meltem Ö Gürel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Architecture categories.
Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey studies the unfolding of modern architecture in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s. The book brings together scholars who have carried out extensive research on post-WWII modernism in a global context. The authors situate Turkish architectural case studies within an international framework during this period, providing a close reading of how architectural culture responded to ubiquitous post-war ideas and ideals, and how it became intertwined with politics of modernization and urbanization. This book contributes to contemporary scholarship to reconsider post-war architecture, beyond canonical explanations.
The Seaside Health And The Environment In England And Wales Since 1800
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Author : John Hassan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Seaside Health And The Environment In England And Wales Since 1800 written by John Hassan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the opportunities for bathing in and even drinking sea-water. Although the early health resort ideal began to give way to more pleasure orientated themes in the nineteenth century, the seaside holiday was still regarded by many as a wholesome and invigorating break from inland urban life well into the twentieth century. Yet with ever increasing numbers of visitors and rising levels of coastal pollution, this was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday. For these and other reasons the seaside holiday reached new peaks of popularity in the 1930s and 1950s, yet, this very success placed enormous pressures on the environmental amenities that people came to enjoy. As this work shows, environmental stresses were manifold, particularly pollution of the resorts' prime assets, their beaches. As such, serious questions are raised concerning why it took such a long time for a determined effort to be made to reverse beach pollution, and the lessons to be learned regarding the impact of negative images of the coast as a zone of danger and infection.
Working Class Organisations And Popular Tourism 1840 1970
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Author : Susan Barton
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005-05-20
Working Class Organisations And Popular Tourism 1840 1970 written by Susan Barton and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-20 with History categories.
Today, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts the development of the working class holiday over two centuries. This study recounts how short, unpaid and often unauthorised periods of leave from work became organised and legitimised through legislation, culminating with the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938. Moreover, this study finds that it was through collective activity by workers--through savings clubs, friendly societies and union activity--that the working class were originally able to take holidays, and it was as a result of collective bargaining and campaigning that paid holidays were eventually secured for all.