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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism -- France -- Brittany -- History.
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Heritage tourism. |
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France -- Brittany. |
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History. |
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- France -- Brittany.
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Tourism -- Social aspects. |
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Bretons -- Ethnic identity.
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Bretons -- Ethnic identity. |
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Bretons. |
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National characteristics, Breton.
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National characteristics, Breton. |
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Regionalism -- France -- Brittany.
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Regionalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Young, Patrick, 1967- Enacting Brittany. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012 9780754669265 (DLC) 2012010016 (OCoLC)781278982 |
| ISBN |
9780754696568 (electronic book) |
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0754696561 (electronic book) |
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9780754669265 |
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0754669262 |
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