Leisure Cultures In Urban Europe, C.1700-1870
A transnational perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23511752 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Peter Borsay, Jan Hein Furnée (0009-0002-6005-8506) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7228/manchester/9780719089695.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2503645561 |
| Open Library | OL27699777M |
| ISBN | 9780719089695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe in the transition from the early modern to the modern period. The volume brings together research on a wide variety of leisure activities which are usually studied in isolation: from theatre and music culture, art exhibitions, spas and seaside resorts, to sports and games, walking and cafés and restaurants. The book develops a new research agenda for the history of leisure by focusing on the complex processes of cultural transfer that were fundamental in transforming urban leisure culture from the British Isles to France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria and the Ottoman Empire. How did new models of organising and experiencing urban leisure pastimes ‘travel’ from one European region to another? Who were the main agents of cultural innovation and appropriation? How did entrepreneurs, citizens and urban authorities mediate and adapt foreign influences to local contexts? How did the increasingly ‘entangled’ character of European urban leisure culture impact upon the ways men and women from various classes identified with their social, cultural or (proto)national communities? Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume offers students and scholars a broad overview of the history of urban leisure culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. The agenda-setting focus on transnational cultural transfer will stimulate new questions and contribute to a more integrated study of the rise of modern urban culture.
Appropriation · Archaeology · Everyday life · Exhibition · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Urban culture · Urban history · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Europe · History · Leisure · Leisure class · Social conditions
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |