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Afterword: Tourism and Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2024
Abstract
This afterword provides a critical examination of the historical connections between tourism and empire. To contextualise this discussion, a concise overview is provided of the history of tourism, its entanglements with empire and expansion into a truly global industry in the modern era. This is followed by an analysis that draws on the articles making up this special issue in order to highlight their contributions and connections to the most recent wider literature and in particular the significant themes raised that have thus far been underrepresented in the nascent historiography on tourism and empire. The afterword finishes by providing a strong argument for the necessity of continuing this line of investigation further, with a particular emphasis on the need to understand the double role of tourism as both an instrument of imperial oppression, as well as a site of localised forms of agency and contestation.
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- Itinerario , Volume 48 , Special Issue 3: Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires , December 2024 , pp. 348 - 354
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Leiden Institute for History
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