Peter Borsay, Rosemary Sweet

The Invention of the English Landscape

C. 1700-1939

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A study of how the English natural landscape was transformed into a major tourist, heritage, and leisure resource from the early modern period to the Second World War"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350269767
• ISBN-10: 135026976X
• Artikelnr.: 70102204

Autorenporträt

Peter Borsay was Professor of History at Aberystwyth University, UK, a member of the advisory boards of Urban History and the Journal of Tourism History, and a committee member of the British Pre-Modern Towns Group. His books include The English Urban Renaissance (1989); The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage and History (2000); and A History of Leisure: the British Experience since 1500 (2006). He has co-edited Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700 (2011) and Leisure Cultures in Urban Europe, c. 1700-1870: a Transnational Perspective (2016). Rosemary Sweet is Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre of Urban History at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of The English Town, 1680-1840 and The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Before the Victorians: c. 1500-1837 1. Revealing the
Early Modern Landscape 2. Ideas and Representations 1500-1837 Part II:
Reconfiguring the Landscape 3. Ideas and Representations 1837-1939 4. New
Topographies 5. Timescapes Part III: Economic and Social Change 6. Economic
and Social Change 7. The Transport Revolution Part IV: The State, Politics
and Identities 8. State, Place and Politics 9. Identities and Experiences
Conclusion: The Second World War and Beyond Bibliography