The Rise Of The Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900
Edited by John Travis
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Subjects: Maritime Studies, South-West Studies |
The first comprehensive study of the emergence of Devon's seaside resorts. Relating the development of these resorts to the wider processes of social and economic change, it explains why early tourists were drawn to the remote Devon coast and shows how fishing villages were transformed into fashionable watering places. Themes covered include bathing rituals and sea-water drinking, health cures and cholera epidemics, sophisticated amusements and improving recreations, paddle-steamers and excursion trains.
"... this lucid and enjoyably written book, which is spiced throughout by the author's eye for the telling example and wittily pointed anecdote."
(John K. Walton, Mariner's Mirror)
"Travis has produced a valuable study relevant to both the history of leisure and maritime history in its widest sense."
(The Northern Mariner)
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John Travis
Exeter Maritime Studies
- British Privateering Enterprise In The Eighteenth Century
- British Shipbuilding And The State Since 1918 - A Political Economy of Decline
- Coastal And River Trade In Pre-Industrial England - Bristol and its Region, 1680-1730
- Cockburn And The British Navy In Transition - Admiral Sir George Cockburn 1772-1853
- Ebb Tide In The British Maritime Industries - Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990
- Exploiting The Sea - Aspects of Britain's Maritime Economy since 1870
- The Glorious First Of June 1794 - A Naval Battle and its Aftermath
- Man And The Maritime Environment
- Manila Ransomed - The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
- The Maritime History Of Devon
- Parameters Of British Naval Power, 1650-1850
- Pirates And Privateers - New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Power And Politics At The Seaside - The Development of Devon's Resorts in the Twentieth Century
- Recreation And The Sea
- The Rise Of The Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900
- Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Year War, 1756–1763
- Shipping Movements In The Ports Of The United Kingdom, 1871-1913
- Trawling - The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery