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Zusatztext 'This book reveals many fascinating historical perspectives It represents important reading in capturing and understanding the characteristics of past and present-day tourism.'Tourism 'this splendid collection of sixteen essays is extraordinarily broad...a refreshing contrast to the Anglo-centric nature of so much writing on tourism and leisure'International Journal of Maritime History Informationen zum Autor Susan C. Anderson, Associate Professor, University of OregonBruce Tabb, Associate Professor, University of Oregon Klappentext Dancing on the beach after a swim in the Mediterranean, taking the waters in fashionable Baden-Baden, boating on the Black Sea - the myriad uses of water imply that the term itself possesses multiple meanings. Focusing on Europe, this book addresses how using water for relaxation intersects with ideas about class, gender, nationality, and consumption. It also explores the ways Europeans have turned to water for pleasure, relaxation, and profit over the last two hundred years as the enjoyment of free time developed from a privilege into a right. Contributors capture key moments of social and cultural transition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - moments during which new social distinctions emerged, debates about nationalism and cosmopolitanism flourished, concepts of hygiene became politicized, and attitudes about travel and vacationing developed.What kinds of relationships exist between recreational uses of water and cultural, social, or political practices? How have such relationships found representation in art, landscaping, or architecture? Who visits water resorts or beaches and what role have these places played in the emergence of collective identities or in lending authority to social distinctions? How does the organization of leisure activities around water reflect ideas about purity and pollution, in a moral, social, or physical sense? This exciting venture into 'uncharted waters' will fascinate historians, geographers and anyone with a keen interest in European cultural studies, art and landscape. Zusammenfassung Addresses how using water for relaxation intersects with ideas about class, gender, nationality and consumption. It explores the ways Europeans have turned to water for pleasure, relaxation and profit over the last 200 years as the enjoyment of free time developed from a privilege to a right. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMap of Europe1 Introduction: The Pleasure of Taking the Waters Susan C. AndersonCollective Identities2 Fashionable Spa Towns in Nineteenth-century Europe David Blackbourn3 The Culture of the Water Cure in Nineteenth-century Austria, 1800@1914 Jill Steward4 The Waters of San Sebastián: Therapy, Health, Pleasure and Identity, 1840@1936 John Walton5 The Thrill of Frozen Water: Class, Gender and Ice-Skating in The Netherlands, 1600@1900Jan Hein Furnée6 The Finnish Sauna and Its FinnishnessPekka LeimuAesthetics and Ideology7 Seaside Visitors: Idlers, Thinkers and Patriots in Mid-nineteenth-century BritainChristiana Payne8 A Sound Mind in a Sound Body: Bathing in SwedenMichelle Facos9 The Ideological, Aesthetic and Ecological Significance of Water in Twentieth-century German Garden DesignJoachim Wolschke-Bulmahn10 The Thermenpalast (Thermal Palace): An Outstanding German Water-leisure Project from the 1920sGert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn11 Hungarian Spas Teresa SwitzerEcology and Economics12 Water Recreation Resources and Environmental Pressures along Bulgaria's Black Sea CoastVassil Marinov and Boian Koulov13 Water and Leisure in Moldova: A Social Perspective Maria Vodenska14 Water, Culture and Leisure: From Spas to Beach Tourism in Greece during the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesMargarita Dritsas15 Rimini and Costa Smeralda: How Social Values Shape Recreational Sites Patrizia Battilani16 Vacationi...
