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Annales De Normandie
Author_Patrick Young
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Breton Costume
Breton Cultural
Breton Landscapes
Breton Population
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cultural identity formation
De Cornouaille
Du Tourisme
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ethnographic fieldwork France
france
French Tourist
French Tourist Industry
heritage tourism studies
La Bretagne
Le Tour De La France
Long Trail
Lutte Contre
mass tourism impact Brittany
Monuments Campaign
Monuments Committee
Nancy Bell
Natural Beauty
population
Preservationist Activism
presses
regional cultural preservation
religious processions analysis
rennes
rural French history
St Brieuc
Tour De La France
Tour De La France Par
touring
Touring Club
Touring Club De France
Tourist Clientele
universitaires
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754669265
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Brittany offers an excellent 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 twentieth century. It is therefore a strategic choice as a case study of some of the processes associated with the emergence of mass tourism, and the effects of this kind of tourism development on local populations. Efforts to package Breton cultural difference 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 study 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. Chapters are arranged thematically and consider the rise of rural tourism in France and the preservation, display, and enactment of Breton culture in its most visible locations: the natural landscape of Brittany, Breton dress, early heritage festivals and religious Pardons. The final chapter explores the staging of Breton culture at the Paris World's Fair of 1937 and the roots of state-sponsored mass tourism. 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.
Patrick Young is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
