Being elsewhere : tourism, consumer culture, and identity in Modern Europe and North America

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Shelley Baranowski and Ellen Furlough

PART 1. Tourism, Bourgeois Identity, and the Politics of Nation Building

The Tactics of Retreat: Spa Vacations and Bourgeois 35
Identity in Nineteenth-Century France
Douglas P. Mackaman

Selling Lourdes: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and the Mass- 63
Marketing of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century France
Suzanne K Kaufman

The Chamber of Commerce's Carnival: City Festivals and 89
Urban Tourism in the United States, 1890-1915
Catherine Cocks

Tourism in Late Imperial Austria: The Development of 108
Tourist Cultures and Their Associated Images of Place
Jill Steward

PART 2. Tourism, Mass Mobilization, and the Nation-State

Know Your Country: A Comparative Perspective on 137
Tourism and Nation Building in Sweden
Orvar Loigren

Seeing the Nature of America: The National Parks as 155
National Assets, 1914-1929
Marguerite S. Shaffer

A "New Deal" for Leisure: Making Mass Tourism during 185
the Great Depression
Michael Berkowitz

Strength through Joy: Tourism and National Integration in 213
the Third Reich
Shelley Baranowski

PART 3. Global Mass Tourism and the Representation of Place

French Cultural Tourism and the Vichy Problem 239
Bertram M. Gordon

Consuming the Beach: Seaside Resorts and Cultures of 272
Tourism in England and Spain from the 1840S to the 1930S
John K Walton

Culture for Export: Tourism and Autoethnography in 299
Postwar Britain
James Buzard

"Everybody Likes Canadians": Canadians, Americans, and 320
the Post-World War II Travel Boom
Karen Dubinsky

La Grande Motte: Regional Development, Tourism, and 348
the State
Ellen Furlough and Rosemary Wakeman

Contributors 373
Index 377