The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History

by Zuelow, Eric G. E.; James, Kevin J.

• ISBN13: 9780190889555
• ISBN10: 0190889551
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-03-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History provides an essential reference resource that consolidates innovative research into the history of tourism while mapping new trajectories that embrace scholars working in a variety of national contexts. The collection's original essays give advanced students, instructors, and researchers an overview of the field as it exists today and chart a course forward -- particularly as regards the nascent histories of various "niche" tourism practices, which have yet to receive adequate historical analysis. The handbook showcases what we now know and highlights what we do not, serving as a necessary starting point for those anxious to craft the future history of tourism. Moreover, it offers coherence to the exploration of tourism historiography by offering readers a resource in which a common set of axes of analysis -- specifically nationhood, sexuality, race, gender and class -- are systematically explored across a wide expanse of time and space in discrete engagements with core themes in tourism history.

Table of Contents

The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History

1. Introduction
Eric G. E. Zuelow and Kevin J. James

Section I: Contexts and Chronologies

2. Experiencing Ancient Landscapes
Grant Parker

3. Medieval Travel
Kate M. Craig

4. Grand Tour
Gerrit Verhoeven

Section II: The Politics of Tourism

5. Gender and Tourism in the (Very) Long Nineteenth Century
Cecilia Morgan

6. Tourism, Nations, and Nationalism
Eric G. E. Zuelow

7. Colonial Tourism
Eric T. Jennings

8. Race and Tourism
Anthony J. Stanonis

9. Authoritarian Tourism
Shelley Baranowski

10. Democratic Tourism
Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Anu-Hanna Anttila

11. Poverty, Class, and Tourism: From Seeing Poverty to Modern Philanthropy, Social Policy, and Antipoverty Activism
Fabian Frenzel

12. Tourism and the International Order after 1945
Sasha D. Pack


Section III: Infrastructures and Institutions

13. Tourism and Transport
Jessica Lynne Pearson

14. Hotels and Tourism
Kevin J. James

15. Tourism Alone and in Groups
Susan Barton

Section IV: Tourism Mediators

16. Tourism and Visual Culture
Patrick Young

17. Writing Tourism
Rebecca Butler

18. Travel Guides
Barbara Schaff

19. Fashion and Tourism
Deirdre Clemente

Section V: Places of Tourism

20. Tourism and Landscape
Christian Noack

21. Ecotourism
Scott Moranda

22. Spas and Seaside Resorts
Peter Borsay

23. Alpine Tourism: Refashioning a Model
Jon Mathieu

24. Tourism Histories in Africa
Gordon Pirie

25. Tourism Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Andrew Grant Wood

26. Hospitality and the Shaping of the Tourist(ic) in Modern Japan, 1890-1940
Andrew Elliott

Section VI: Tourism Typologies

27. Youth Tourism
Richard Ivan Jobs

28. Heritage Tourism
Alan Gordon

29. Nudism
Stephen L. Harp

30. Urban Tourism
Jan Hein Furnée

31. Culinary Tourism
Lucy M. Long

32. Sports, Tourism, and History
Robert W. Lewis

33. Dark Tourism as History: Dark Tourism in History
Tony Seaton