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The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800.
"This study explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2003.
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| Colección: | Modern economic and social history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This study explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781351882200 1351882201 9781351882194 1351882198 9781315237152 1315237156 |