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Histories of leisure
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- Creator
- edited by Rudy Koshar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2002
- Physical Details
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- ix, 365 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781859735251, 9781859735206, 1859735207, 1859735258, 9786610548347, 1845205448, 1280548347
- OCLC
- ocn648760873, ocn933247693, ocm48810997
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Seeing, Traveling, and Consuming: An Introduction / Rudy Koshar -- 2. Museums: Leisure between State and Distinction / Nick Prior -- 3. The Circus and Nature in Late Georgian England / Marius Kwint -- 4. Flaneurs in Paris and Berlin / Esther Leslie -- 5. Crowd Control: Boxing Spectatorship and Social Order in Weimar Germany / Erik Jensen -- 6. Travels with Baedeker: The Guidebook and the Middle Classes in Victorian and Edwardian England / Jan Palmowski -- 7. Bicycling, Class, and the Politics of Leisure in Belle Epoque France / Christopher S. Thompson -- 8. "Every German visitor has a volkisch obligation he must fulfill": Nationalist Tourism in the Austrian Empire, 1880-1918 / Pieter Judson -- 9. La Vieille France as Object of Bourgeois Desire: The Touring Club de France and the French Regions, 1890-1918 / Patrick Young -- 10. The Michelin Red Guides: Social Differentiation in Early-Twentieth-Century French Tourism / Stephen L. Harp -- 11. Germans at the Wheel: Cars and Leisure Travel in Interwar Germany / Rudy Koshar -- 12. Confessional Drinking: Catholic Workingmen's Clubs and Alcohol Consumption in Wilhelmine Germany / Robert Goodrich -- 13. "As I walked along the Bois de Boulogne": Subversive Performances and Masculine Pleasures in Fin-de-Siecle London / Christopher Breward -- 14. "Jewish Taste?" Jews and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in Paris and Berlin, 1920-1942 / Leora Auslander -- 15. Leisure, Politics, and the Consumption of Tobacco in Britain since the Nineteenth Century / Matthew Hilton -- 16. Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy / Stephen Gundle