Tourism and Travel during the Cold War
Title | Tourism and Travel during the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Sune Bechmann Pedersen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2019-09-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0429575009 |
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of tourism, from sun-and-sea package tours to human rights travels, in key Eastern European locations including East Berlin, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Albania. The book’s analysis of the politics, culture, and history of tourism to the East offers important new perspectives on European tourism in the twentieth century. The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Cold War Holidays
Title | Cold War Holidays PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Endy |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2005-12-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0807863513 |
Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism. Focusing on American travel in France after World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how both the U.S. and French governments actively cultivated and shaped leisure travel to advance their foreign policy agendas. From the U.S. government's campaign to encourage American vacations in Western Europe as part of the Marshall Plan, to Charles de Gaulle's aggressive promotion of American tourism to France in the 1960s, Endy reveals how consumerism and globalization played a major role in transatlantic affairs. Yet contrary to analyses of globalization that emphasize the decline of the nation-state, Endy argues that an era notable for the rise of informal transnational exchanges was also a time of entrenched national identity and persistent state power. A lively array of voices informs Endy's analysis: Parisian hoteliers and cafe waiters, American and French diplomats, advertising and airline executives, travel writers, and tourists themselves. The resulting portrait reveals tourism as a colorful and consequential illustration of the changing nature of international relations in an age of globalization.
Overbooked
Title | Overbooked PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Becker |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2016-02-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1439161003 |
"Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--
A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
Title | A Cold War Tourist and His Camera PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Langford |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773538216 |
In 1963, Warren Langford, a Second World War air force veteran and career public servant, travelled through Europe, North America, and Africa as part of the National Defence College's curriculum of Cold War training. During this time he bought a camera and produced some 200 slides of his travels. InA Cold War Tourist and His Camerahis art historian daughter and political scientist son bring his photographs - an unexpected combination of iconic images of Cold War dangers and touristic snapshots - back into view. Martha Langford and John Langford examine their fat photographic experience, revealing the complexity of both the images and their creator.A Cold War Tourist and His Camerastages the family slide show as you've never seen it before.
Negotiating Paradise
Title | Negotiating Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Merrill |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080783288X |
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in L
Backpack Ambassadors
Title | Backpack Ambassadors PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Ivan Jobs |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2017-05-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022646203X |
In Backpack Ambassadors, Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly helping knit the continent together.
All this is Your World
Title | All this is Your World PDF eBook |
Author | Anne E. Gorsuch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2011-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199609942 |
All this is your World offers an exploration of the revolutionary integration of the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural exchange. Anne E. Gorsuch examines what it meant to be "Soviet" in a country no longer defined as Stalinist.