This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as providing a rich seam of upscale product development opportunities in the industry as a whole. Much of the related literature, however, focuses upon describing and categorizing cultural tourism from a supply-side perspective. This has prompted the taxonomizing of cultural tourists on the basis of...
This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understandin...
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place, history, memory, music and literature. Rather than being framed in a 'social inclusion' framework, which sees working class culture as a deficit, this book addresses the question What is labour and working class heritage, how does it differ or stand in opposition to dominant ways of understanding heritage and...
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of...
This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical issues that public historians, museum practitioners, and policy makers can draw upon in developing responses to the increasing recognition of Britain's history of African enslavement.
This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical iss...
