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Histories of leisure

Author: Rudy Koshar
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
Series: Leisure, consumption, and culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Multiple essays focus on the culture of leisure as it evolved in Europe since the eighteenth century, including why leisure culture crystallized around particular practices and a historical overview of manifestations such as travel, entertainment, sports, fashion, and 'taste'.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Histories of leisure.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002
(OCoLC)606779713
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rudy Koshar
ISBN: 1859735207 9781859735206 1859735258 9781859735251
OCLC Number: 48810997
Description: ix, 365 p. ; 24 cm.
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. 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.
Series Title: Leisure, consumption, and culture.
Responsibility: edited by Rudy Koshar.
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Multiple essays focus on the culture of leisure as it evolved in Europe since the eighteenth century, including why leisure culture crystallized around particular practices and a historical overview of manifestations such as travel, entertainment, sports, fashion, and 'taste'.

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