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  • Sport, History, and Heritage

    Studies in Public Representation

    by Jeffrey Hill, Jean Williams, Jed Smith, John K. Walton, Kevin Moore, Matthew Taylor, Max Dunbar, Mike McGuinness, Neil Skinner0, Ray Physick1, Richard Holt2, Santiago De Pablo3, Stephen Done4, Tim O'Sullivan5, Wray Vamplew6, Jason Wood8, Andrea Titterington9, Anthony Bateman0, Daphné Bolz1, David Storey2, Honor Godfrey3 ...
    Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly separate spheres, yet together they can convey powerful messages; convergence between them is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Making of a Cultural Landscape

    The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010

    Edited by Jason Wood, John K. Walton ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Mineral Springs Resorts in Global Perspective

    Spa Histories

    Edited by John K. Walton ...
    Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday. During their heyday the leading spa resorts became hotbeds of political and diplomatic ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Histories of Tourism

    Representation, Identity and Conflict

    Edited by Prof. John K. Walton ...
    Series Book 6 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This collection of essays develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Constructing Cultural Tourism

    John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze

    by Prof. Keith Hanley, Prof. John K. Walton ...
    Series Book 25 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development of cultural tourism which was probably as significant as that, for example, of his ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Free Markets and Food Riots

    The Politics of Global Adjustment

    by David Seddon, John K. Walton ...
    Series Book 64 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment".Explores this general proposition in a cross ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Resorts and Ports

    European Seaside Towns since 1700

    Edited by Prof. Peter Borsay, Prof. John K. Walton ...
    Series Book 29 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from the 18th century to the 20th, and what the attributes of ports (fishing, harbour crafts, the whiff of the exotic, fishermen’s homes and families) ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Second Reform Act

    by John K. Walton ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    The Reform Act of 1867 was highly controversial at the time and has remained so. Was it an inevitable step on the road to full democracy or an irresponsible gamble by a politician desperate to win a tactical victory? ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Understanding Richard Hoggart

    A Pedagogy of Hope

    by Michael Bailey, Ben Clarke, John K. Walton ...
    Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural StudiesWith the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation.Re-examines the reputation of one of the ‘inventors’ of Cultural StudiesUses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Disraeli

    by John K. Walton ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Disraeli is a key figure for students of nineteenth-century Britain. He is indelibly identified with the unmaking of Peel's version of the Conservative Party, and with the re-creation of a durable and outstandingly successful new party which retained the loyalty of the squires and the shires while reaching out to newer forms of property ownership and cultivating the attachment of a significant ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland

    Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini, Mary E. Daly ...
    Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and children, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD