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Europe’s Favourite Dictatorships - Southern Authoritarianism, Tourism, and the “Free West”, 1945–1975

English · Hardback

Will be released 31.12.2025

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About the author

Patricia Hertel, Departement Geschichte, Universität Basel, Schweiz.

Summary

In the decades following the Second World War, the existence of authoritarian regimes on the Iberian Peninsula undermined the idea of a "free West." At the same time, Spain and Portugal were emerging as ever more popular holiday destinations for West European tourists. This book analyzes how tourism shaped the relations between West European democracies and the Iberian regimes: Government officials and entrepreneurs established touristic infrastructures, travel writers addressed the tension between visitors’ leisure and locals’ oppression, activists called for a boycott of tourism to the authoritarian regimes. In a period shaped by the Cold War, tourism turned the Iberian regimes into Europe’s favourite dictatorships. 

Product details

Authors Patricia Hertel
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 31.12.2025
 
EAN 9783111381787
ISBN 978-3-11-138178-7
No. of pages 450
Weight 500 g
Illustrations 19 b/w ill., 2 b/w tbl., Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

Tourismus, Diktatur, Portugal, Spanien, Spain, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Tourism, auseinandersetzen, Dictatorship

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