The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800

by John Hassan

Overview

The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores the ways in which the English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138272057
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/2016
Series:	Modern Economic and Social History
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Georgian origins; The Victorian and Edwardian periods; Escape to sun and light; Fun, crowds and problems in the inter-war period; Post-war golden years and controversies, 1945-76; The Coastal Anti-Pollution League, 1958-87; Environmental awakening: the 1970s and 1980s; Muscular activism and pressure groups in the 1990s; Past and future challenges; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'Hassan has read widely and carefully in the relevant secondary, as well as primary, literature. His standpoints on specific questions are thoughtfully elaborated, his acknowledgement of other scholarship generous. This book offers more than a modern history of the seaside; it is also a guide to the current bibliography, and to the issues central to the economic history of environments other than the coast of England and Wales.' Economic History Review '... the scope of the book is impressive if not encyclopaedic.' www.history.ac.uk 'The author has written a bench-mark work for future studies of the interrelated environmental, medical and cultural histories of modern Britain.' Urban History

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