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1 online resource (ix, 365 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Leisure, consumption, and culture
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Leisure, consumption, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Seeing, traveling, and consuming : an introduction / Rudy Koshar -- Museums : leisure between state and distinction / Nick Prior -- Circus and nature in late Georgian England / Marius Kwint -- Flâneurs in Paris and Berlin / Esther Leslie -- Crowd control : boxing spectatorship and social order in Weimar Germany / Erik Jensen -- Travels with Baedeker : the guidebook and the middle classes in Victorian and Edwardian England / Jan Palmowski -- Bicycling, class, and the politics of leisure in Belle Epoque France / Christopher S. Thompson -- "Every German visitor has a völkisch obligation he must fulfill" : nationalist tourism in the Austrian Empire, 1880-1918 / Pieter Judson -- Vieille France as object of bourgeois desire : the Touring Club de France and the French Regime, 1890-1918 / Patrick Young -- Michelin red guides : social differentiation in early-twentieth-century French tourism / Stephen L. Harp -- Germans at the wheel : cars and leisure travel in interwar Germany / Rudy Koshar -- Confessional drinking : Catholic workingmen's clubs and alcohol consumption in Wilhelmine Germany / Robert Goodrich -- "As I walked along the Bois de Boulogne" : subversive performances and masculine pleasures in Fin-de-Siècle London / Christopher Breward -- "Jewish taste?" : Jews and the aesthetics of everyday life in Paris and Berlin, 1920-1942 / Leora Auslander. |
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Leisure, politics, and the consumption of tobacco in Britain since the nineteenth century / Matthew Hilton -- Hollywood glamour and mass consumption in postwar Italy / Stephen Gundle. |
| Summary |
In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and expectations, its scop e and variability, still remains largely a matter of conjecture. One message that has emerged from a multiplicity of disciplines is that research on leisure and consumption opens up a hitherto untapped mine of information on the broader issues of pol itics, society, culture and economics. How have leisure regimes in Europe evolved since the eighte. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Leisure -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Leisure -- Social aspects. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Leisure -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Europe -- History.
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Europe -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Koshar, Rudy.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Histories of leisure. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002 9781859735206 (DLC) 2002000202 (OCoLC)48810997 |
| ISBN |
9781845205447 (electronic book) |
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1845205448 (electronic book) |
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1859735207 (Cloth) |
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1859735258 (Paper) |
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9781859735206 |
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9781859735251 (paperback) |
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