Resorts and Ports (EPUB) von Peter Borsay

This book draws together case-studies which explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over 3 centuries. It will interest academics in tourism studies, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration.

1. Peter Borsay and John K. Walton: Introduction: the Resort-Port Relationship

2. Allan Brodie: Towns of ‘Health and Mirth’: the First Seaside Resorts, 1730-1769

3. Jan Hein Furnée: A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a Seaside Resort, Fishing Village, and Port, c. 1700-1900

4. David Hussey: ‘From the Temple of Hygeia to the Sordid Devotees of Pluto’. The Hotwell and Bristol: Resort and Port in the Eighteenth Century.

5. Fred Gray: Three Views of Brighton as a Resort

6. Peter Borsay: From Port to Resort: Tenby and Narratives of Transition, 1760-1914

7. Louise Miskell: A Town Divided? Sea-bathing, Dock-building, and Oyster-fishing in Nineteenth-century Swansea

8. John K. Walton: Port and Resort: Symbiosis and Conflict in ‘Old Whitby’, England, since 1880

9. Berit Eide Johnsen: Recycled Maritime Culture and Landscape: Various Aspects of Nineteenth-century Shipping and Fishing Industries to Twentieth-century Tourism in Southern Norway

10. Guy Saupin: Gijón: From Asturian Regional Port and Industrial City, to Touristic and Cultural Centre for the European Atlantic Arc, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

11. Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska: From a Baltic Village to a Leading Health resort: Reminiscences of the Social History of Jurmala, Latvia

12. Jason Wood: From Port to Resort: Art, Heritage, and Identity in the Regeneration of Margate