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Author Jobs, Richard Ivan, author.

Title Backpack ambassadors : how youth travel integrated Europe / Richard Ivan Jobs.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Backpack ambassadors -- Youth mobility and the making of Europe -- Journeys of reconciliation -- Youth movements -- Continental drifters -- East of the wall, south of the sea -- Rights of passage.
Summary Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In 'Backpack Ambassadors', Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly helping knit the continent together. From the Berlin Wall to the beaches of Spain, the Spanish Steps in Rome to the Pudding Shop in Istanbul, Jobs tells the stories of backpackers whose personal desire for freedom of movement brought the people and places of Europe into ever-closer contact. As greater and greater numbers of young people trekked around the continent, and a truly international youth culture began to emerge, the result was a Europe that, even in the midst of Cold War tensions, found its people more and more connected, their lives more and more integrated. Drawing on archival work in eight countries and five languages, and featuring trenchant commentary on the relevance of this period for contemporary concerns about borders and migration, Backpack Ambassadors brilliantly recreates a movement that was far more influential and important than its footsore travelers could ever have realized.
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Subject Youth -- Travel -- Europe -- History.
Youth -- Travel.
Europe.
History.
International travel -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Europe -- History -- 1945-
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject International travel.
TRAVEL -- Europe -- General.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form History.
Subject Youth.
Other Form: Print version: Jobs, Richard Ivan. Backpack ambassadors. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 9780226438979 (DLC) 2016044002 (OCoLC)959667388
ISBN 9780226439020 (electronic book)
022643902X (electronic book)
9780226438979
022643897X
9780226462035
022646203X