Publications of the German Historical Institute

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This romanticized version of the present reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science. In an era of rapid and unprecedented change, simultaneously nostalgic and progressive grounded modernity produced an illusion of continuity. It helped make the experience of modernity more tangible by linking impersonal and abstract ideas, like national identity, with familiar experiences and concrete sights. Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800-1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity during this period. It gauges Germany's long and often unsettling journey to modernity using Bavarian tourism and travel as a lens. Closely examining guidebooks, brochures, postcards and other tourist propaganda, Adam Rosenbaum argues that by pointing visitors to the past, tourism illuminated the present, and produced signposts to the future.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. A brief history of German travel; 2. Landscape tourism in Franconian Switzerland; 3. Nature, modernity, and the spa culture of Bad Reichenhall; 4. The Augsburg tourism industry and the German past; 5. The Nazified tourist culture of Munich and Nuremberg; Epilogue.

About the author

Adam T. Rosenbaum is an Assistant Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University, where he teaches courses on European and Asian history.

Summary

Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and German modernity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using a variety of tourist propaganda. By promoting an image of 'grounded modernity', Bavarian tourism reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Rosenbaum, Adam T Rosenbaum, Adam T. Rosenbaum, Rosenbaum Adam T.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107111950
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11195-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German His
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries