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2 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.652
- isbn: 9782869062030
- eisbn: 9782869063280
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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John K. Walton, « Urban Space, Public Pleasure and Cultural Conflict: the Seaside Resort in England c. 1840-1939 », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.652
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This chapter must begin by emphasizing the early importance and rapid development of the seaside resort in Britain: the seaside holiday is a British - more precisely, an English - invention and cultural export. The seaside holiday, together with its urban expression, the seaside resort as a distinctive kind of urban space and entity, constitutes one of the key contributions Britain has made to the development of the modern world, along with (most obviously) the Industrial Revolution, the Brit...