Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 (Publications of the German Historical Institute) - Hardcover

Rosenbaum, Adam T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107111951 ISBN 13: 9781107111950

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This romanticized version of the present reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science. In an era of rapid and unprecedented change, simultaneously nostalgic and progressive grounded modernity produced an illusion of continuity. It helped make the experience of modernity more tangible by linking impersonal and abstract ideas, like national identity, with familiar experiences and concrete sights. Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800-1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity during this period. It gauges Germany's long and often unsettling journey to modernity using Bavarian tourism and travel as a lens. Closely examining guidebooks, brochures, postcards and other tourist propaganda, Adam Rosenbaum argues that by pointing visitors to the past, tourism illuminated the present, and produced signposts to the future.

About this title

Book Description:

Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and German modernity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using a variety of tourist propaganda. By promoting an image of 'grounded modernity', Bavarian tourism reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science.

About the Author:

Adam T. Rosenbaum is an Assistant Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University, where he teaches courses on European and Asian history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107111951
• ISBN 13: 9781107111950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290