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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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Abstract:
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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