Resorts and Ports : : European Seaside Towns since 1700 / / ed. by Peter Borsay, John K. Walton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Borsay, Peter,; Brodie, Allan,; Furneé, Jan Hein,; Gray, Fred,; Hussey, David,; Johnsen, Berit Eide,; Laakkonen, Simo,; Miskell, Louise,; Saupin, Guy,; Vasilevska, Karina,; Walton, John K.,; Wood, Jason,
• HerausgeberIn: Borsay, Peter,; Walton, John K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from the 18th century to the 20th, and what the attributes of ports (fishing, harbour crafts, the whiff of the exotic, fishermen's homes and families) contributed to the attractions of resorts. Case-studies drawn from across Europe, from Wales and the Netherlands to Norway, Latvia and Spain, bring original perspectives to bear on these histories and relationships, and consider their influence on seaside heritage and regeneration at a time when coastal settlements are increasingly using their past to secure their future. The book will interest academics in tourism studies, history, geography and cultural studies, as well as provide essential information and analysis for policy-makers in coastal regeneration.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Resort-Port Relationship -- Chapter 2. Towns of 'Health and Mirth': The First Seaside Resorts, 1730-1769 -- Chapter 3. A Dutch Idyll? Scheveningen as a Seaside Resort, Fishing Village and Port, c. 1700-1900 -- Chapter 4. 'From the Temple of Hygeia to the Sordid Devotees of Pluto'. The Hotwell and Bristol: Resort and Port in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 5. Three Views of Brighton as Port and Resort -- Chapter 6. From Port to Resort: Tenby and Narratives of Transition, 1760-1914 -- Chapter 7. A Town Divided? Sea-Bathing, Dock-Building and Oyster-Fishing in Nineteenth-Century Swansea -- Chapter 8. Port and Resort: Symbiosis and Conflict in 'Old Whitby', England, since 1880 -- Chapter 9. Recycled Maritime Culture and Landscape: Various Aspects of the Adaptation of Nineteenth-Century Shipping and Fishing Industries to Twentieth-Century Tourism in Southern Norway -- Chapter 10. Gijόn: From Asturian Regional Port and Industrial City to Touristic and Cultural Centre for the European Atlantic Arc, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present -- Chapter 11. From a Baltic Village to a Leading Soviet Health Resort: Reminiscences of the Social History of Jurmala, Latvia -- Chapter 12. From Port to Resort: Art, Heritage and Identity in the Regeneration of Margate