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Battlefield tourism [histor...
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these stories told? And for what purposes are the stories told? The acts and modes of interpretation are many, ranging from a discourse conducted through silences to the more complex nuanced story telling told through re-enactments of past battles. The book also asks where is the battle-field? - as case s
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monografia Rebiun21519422 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun21519422 m o d | cr -n--------- 070402s2007 ne a ob 001 0 eng d 1-136-42706-6 1-281-11879-6 9786611118792 0-08-054834-2 UAM 991008423337104211 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 338.4791 Battlefield tourism electronic resource] history, place and interpretation edited by Chris Ryan Amsterdam Boston London Elsevier 2007 Amsterdam Boston London Amsterdam Boston London Elsevier 1 online resource (317 p.) 1 online resource (317 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Advances in tourism research Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-272) and index Cover; Battlefield Tourism: History, Place and Interpretation; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; The Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Acts of Resource Management; Introduction; Chapter 2. Echoes of War: Battlefield Tourism; Chapter 3. It's Just a Bloody Field! Approaches, Opportunities and Dilemmas of Interpreting English Battlefields; Chapter 4. A Proposed Code of Conduct for War Heritage Sites; Chapter 5. Jinggangshan Mountain: A Paradigm of China's Red Tourism; Acts of Silence; Introduction Chapter 6. Post-Colonial Representations of Japanese Military Heritage: Political and Social Aspects of Battlefield Tourism in the Pacific and East AsiaChapter 7. The Battles of Rangiriri and Batoche: Amnesia and Memory; Chapter 8. Seventy Years of Waiting: A Turning Point for Interpreting the Spanish Civil War?; Chapter 9. The Legerdemain in the Rhetoric of Battlefield Museums: Historical Pluralism and Cryptic Parti Pris; Acts of Discovery and Rediscovery; Introduction; Chapter 10. World War II and Tourism Development in Solomon Islands Chapter 11. Xiamen and Kinmen: From Cross-Border Strife to Shopping TripsChapter 12. Hot War Tourism: The Live Battlefield and the Ultimate Adventure Holiday; Acts of Imagination; Introduction; Chapter 13. Cambridge Armistice Day Celebrations: Making a Carnival of War and the Reality of Play; Chapter 14. Refighting the Eureka Stockade: Managing a Dissonant Battlefield; Chapter 15. Re-enacting the Battle of Aiken: Honour Redeemed; Acts of Remembrance; Introduction; Chapter 16. Yorktown and Patriot's Point, Charleston, South Carolina: Interpretation and Personal Perspectives Chapter 17. Romanticising Tragedy: Culloden Battle Site in ScotlandChapter 18. Forts Sumter and Moultrie: Summer Cruise into a Catalyst for War; Chapter 19. Synthesis and Antithesis; References; Further Reading; Subject Index Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these stories told? And for what purposes are the stories told? The acts and modes of interpretation are many, ranging from a discourse conducted through silences to the more complex nuanced story telling told through re-enactments of past battles. The book also asks where is the battle-field? - as case s English Heritage tourism Battlefields Electronic books Ryan, Chris 1945-) 0-08-045362-7 Advances in tourism research series