Wolfgang Georg Arlt. China's Outbound Tourism. New York: Routledge, 2006. xv + 300 pp.p Illustrations + maps. ISBN 978-0-203-96816-1; $170.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-36536-9.
Reviewed by Tim Oakes Published on H-Travel (September, 2008) Commissioned by Patrick R. Young
Tourism as Foreign Policy
Anita M. Waters. Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. x + 125 pp. $66.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0879-6; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7391-1775-0.
Reviewed by John Walton (Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire) Published on H-Travel (September, 2007)
Eric T Jennings. Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-3822-2.
Reviewed by Stephen Harp (Department of History, University of Akron) Published on H-Travel (July, 2007)
Imperial Waters
Andrea Colantonio, Robert B. Potter. Urban Tourism and Development in the Socialist State: Havana during the "Special Period". Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 256 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7546-4739-3.
Reviewed by John Gustavsen (Department of History, University of Miami) Published on H-Travel (July, 2007)
Tourism and Transition
Jonah Siegel. Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel and the Art-Romance Tradition. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. x + 285 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-12086-7.
Reviewed by Julie Codell (School of Art, Arizona State University) Published on H-Travel (May, 2007)
The Romance and Dream of the Artistic Past
Aldo Canestrini. Schiessen Sie nicht auf den Touristen. Zürich and Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, 2006. 175 pp. EUR 14.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-935300-74-2.
Reviewed by Ignacio Farías (Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin/Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin) Published on H-Travel (May, 2007)
Emma Jinhua Teng. Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895. 230. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 370 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-01451-0; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-02119-8.
Reviewed by Tim Oakes (Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder) Published on H-Travel (May, 2007)
Joshua Hagen. Preservation, Tourism and Nationalism: The Jewel of the German Past. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. x + 340 pp. $124.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7546-4324-1.
Reviewed by Patrick R. Young (Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Lowell) Published on H-Travel (May, 2007)
Hometown for a Nation
Fathah Nawaz Jang. An Indian Passage to Europe: The Travels of Fath Nawaz Jang. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints Series. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxxii + 188 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-597924-4.
Reviewed by Nicholaus Podsiadlik (Department of English, Indiana University Bloomington) Published on H-Travel (March, 2007)
Anthony J. Stanonis. Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xiv + 317 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-2822-5; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-2817-1.
Reviewed by Wendy Adams King (Department of Communication, University of South Florida) Published on H-Travel (March, 2007)
Natalie Zemon Davis. Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds. New York: Hill & Wang, 2006. ix + 435 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-9434-9.
Reviewed by Bart Ooghe (Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East and North Africa, Ghent University, Belgium) Published on H-Travel (March, 2007)
Change, Sameness and the In-Between
Sara Dickinson. Breaking Ground: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 291 pp. $75.00 (paper), ISBN 978-90-420-1949-2.
Reviewed by Christian Noack (Department of History, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany) Published on H-Travel (March, 2007)
Defining the Bounds of Europe and Russia
Susan Barton. Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840-1970. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. xii + 237 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-6590-3.
Reviewed by Eric G. Zuelow (Department of History, University of New England) Published on H-Travel (March, 2007)
The Making of the English Traveling Class
Robert C. Davis, Garry R. Marvin. Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xi + 372 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-23803-9; ISBN 978-0-520-24120-6.
Reviewed by Stephen L. Keck (Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah) Published on H-Travel (March, 2007)
Consuming Venice
Peter C. Mancall, ed. Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 413 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-515596-9; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-515597-6.
Reviewed by Sebastian Barreveld (Department of History, Stanford University) Published on H-Travel (February, 2007)
