Power and Politics at the Seaside: The Development of Devon's Resorts in the Twentieth Century

by Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan

The seaside is the twentieth century's pre-eminent global tourism site and this is the first book of its kind to examine political and power relations in modern seaside resort development. As an historical study of seaside tourism in Devon-England's most popular domestic holiday destination-it reveals the complex interplay between ideology, class and power and the consumption of landscape and place. Drawing on rich local, regional and national sources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859895718
• ISBN13: 9780859895712
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"