Enacting Brittany: Tourism and Culture in Provincial France, 1871-1939

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012 - History - 318 pages
Brittany offers an example of a French region that once attracted a certain cultivated elite of travel connoisseurs but in which more popular tourism developed relatively early in the 20th century. This book explores the means by which French actors pursued tourist development in the region.
 

Contents

List of Figures
Breton Culture and Originality
Tourism Culture and Place in a Changing Brittany 18601914
Dilemmas of Tourist
Refashioning Breton Costume
Breton Religious Processions
Landscape Preservation and Tourism
From Terre du Passé to Modern Leisure Ground? Brittany in
Changing Contexts of Bretonnitude from Vichy
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Patrick Young is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

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