Enacting Brittany [electronic resource] : Tourism and Culture in Provincial France, 1871?1939

ISBN:

9780754696568

Title:

Author:

Young, Patrick.

Personal Author:

Young, Patrick.

Publication Information:

Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 From Romance to Patrimony: Breton Culture and 'Originality' in the Nineteenth Century; 2 Tourism, Culture and Place in a Changing Brittany, 1860-1914; 3 "La Bretagne, au sein de son passé": Dilemmas of Tourist Modernity in the French Countryside; 4 Refashioning Breton Costume; 5 Of Pardons, Loss and Longing: Breton Religious Processions in an Age ofTourism and Cultural Change; 6 A Tasteful Patrimony: Landscape Preservation and Tourism in Brittany

7 From Terre du Passé to Modern Leisure Ground? Brittany in an Age of Mass TourismEpilogue Changing Contexts of Bretonnitude, from Vichy to European Union and Globalization; Bibliography; Index

Subject Term:

Bretons -- Ethnic identity.

Heritage tourism -- France -- Brittany -- History.

National characteristics, Breton.

Regionalism -- France -- Brittany.

Tourism -- Social aspects -- France -- Brittany.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.

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Summary

Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This book explores the means by which key actors - middle class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will also be invaluable to historians and social scientists concerned with understanding the dynamics involved in the emergence of mass tourism, its causes and consequences in particular locales in the present as well as in the past.