Resorts and ports : European seaside towns since 1700 /: European seaside towns since 1700. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Borsay and John K. Walton.
• Other Names: Borsay, Peter; Walton, John K
• Contents: Introduction: the resort-port relationship / Peter Borsay and John K. Walton -- Towns of "health and mirth": the first seaside resorts, 1730-1769 / Allan Brodie -- A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a seaside resort, fishing village, and port, c. 1700-1900 / Jan Hein Furnée -- "From the temple of Hygeia to the sordid devotees of Pluto." The Hotwell and Bristol: resort and port in the eighteenth century / David Hussey -- Three views of Brighton as a resort / Fred Gray -- From port to resort: Tenby and narratives of transition, 1760-1914 / Peter Borsay -- A town divided? sea-bathing, dock-building, and oyster-fishing in nineteenth-century Swansea / Louise Miskell -- Port and resort: symbiosis and conflict in "Old Whitby, " England, since 1880 / John K. Walton -- Recycled maritime culture and landscape: various aspects of nineteenth-century shipping and fishing industries to twentieth-century tourism in southern Norway / Berit Eide Johnsen -- Gijcentn: from asturian regional port and industrial city, to touristic and cultural centre -- For the European Atlantic arc, from the nineteenth century to the present / Guy Saupin -- From a Baltic village to a leading health resort: reminiscences of the social history of Jurmala, Latvia / Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska -- From port to resort: art, heritage, and identity in the regeneration of Margate / Jason Wood.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Channel View Publications
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 914.062; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography; HISTORY / World; GEOGRAPHY; General & world history; Seaside resorts -- Europe -- History; Harbors -- Europe -- History; Tourism -- Europe -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845412005; 1845412001
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.