A History of Archaeological Tourism Pursuing leisure and knowledge from the eighteenth century to World War II /

• Main Author: Díaz-Andreu, Margarita (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeological Heritage Management,
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Archaeology.; Cultural Heritage.

This book examines the relationship between archaeological tourism and professional archaeology. It will do so by looking at this connection - most visibly through nationalism and global capitalism - from the its origins in the early modern period until World ar II. How separate is the development o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The fascination for the past in early modern Europe and the colonized world
• 3. Promoting the national past -archaeology and tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries
• 4. Ivory towers in a world of leisure: tourism and archaeology from 1920 to 1970
• 5. Mass tourism and archaeology
• 6. Conclusions.