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By Peter Borsay,Jan Hein Furnée

This number of essays examines the heritage of city relaxation cultures in Europe in the course of the transition from the early glossy to the trendy interval. Bringing jointly examine on a wide selection of actions - from the theatre and paintings exhibitions to spas, beach motels and video games - it develops a brand new scholarly schedule for the heritage of relaxation, targeting the complicated methods of cultural move that remodeled city rest tradition from the British Isles to the Ottoman Empire. How did new types of city relaxation interests go back and forth all through Europe? Who have been the most brokers of cultural innovation, appropriation and model? How did the more and more entangled personality of ecu city rest tradition influence upon the methods women and men from a number of periods pointed out with their social, cultural or (proto-)national groups? those are a number of the questions explored through this obtainable and wide-ranging assortment, which appears at rest from a long term, interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.

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