Resorts and Ports European Seaside Towns since 1700

by Borsay, Peter; Walton, John K.

• ISBN13: 9781845411985
• ISBN10: 1845411986
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-14
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

Resorts and Ports draws together a group of case-studies which for the fi rst time explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over three centuries. The book will interest academics in tourism studies, history, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing essential information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration.

Author Biography

Peter Borsay is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University and has published widely in the areas of British urban and leisure history since the 18th century, including the history of spas and seaside resorts John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Contemporary History University of the Basque Country UPV/ EHU, Bilbao He has published extensively and internationally on tourism and identity, especially with regard to coastal towns, and edits the Journal of Tourism History

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: The Resort-Port Relationship	p. 1
Towns of 'Health and Mirth': The First Seaside Resorts, 1730-1769	p. 18
A Dutch Idyll? Scheveningen as a Seaside Resort, Fishing Village and Port, c. 1700-1900	p. 33
'From the Temple of Hygeia to the Sordid Devotees of Pluto'. The Hotwell and Bristol: Resort and Port in the Eighteenth Century	p. 50
Three Views of Brighton as Port and Resort	p. 66
From Port to Resort: Tenby and Narratives of Transition, 1760-1914	p. 86
A Town Divided? Sea-Bathing, Dock-Building and Oyster-Fishing in Nineteenth-Century Swansea	p. 113
Port and Resort: Symbiosis and Conflict in 'Old Whitby', England, since 1880	p. 126
Recycled Maritime Culture and Landscape: Various Aspects of the Adaptation of Nineteenth-Century Shipping and Fishing Industries to Twentieth-Century Tourism in Southern Norway	p. 147
Gijón: From Asturian Regional Port and Industrial City to Touristic and Cultural Centre for the European Atlantic Arc, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present	p. 167
From a Baltic Village to a Leading Soviet Health Resort: Reminiscences of the Social History of Jurmala, Latvia	p. 183
From Port to Resort: Art, Heritage and Identity in the Regeneration of Margate	p. 197
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