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  • Nature, the past and the English town: a counter-cultural history

  • PETER BORSAY
  • Journal:
    Urban History / Volume 44 / Issue 1 / February 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 February 2016, pp. 27-43

  • In investigating urban culture, historians have understandably tended to focus on the man-made and the modern, and have paid less attention to the role of nature and the past, which seem the opposite of what the town stands for. This survey, which takes as its case-study England, argues that nature and the past have always been part of urban life, but as urbanization gathered pace, particularly from the eighteenth century, they became if anything an even more important element in city and town culture.

  • A ROOM WITH A VIEW: VISUALISING THE SEASIDE, c. 1750–1914*

  • Peter Borsay
  • Journal:
    Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 23 / December 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 November 2013, pp. 175-201
    Print publication:
    December 2013

  • The expansion in consumption that marked the British economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was based not only on a growth in material goods, but also of experientially and culturally rich products such as leisure and tourism. Underpinning the latter of these, and of key importance in the rise of the seaside resort, was the process of visualisation. The ‘tourist gaze’ became a commodity in its own right, geared around environmental and social subjects, and facilitated by a transformation in the content and reproductive potential of visual culture and an engineering of resorts to deliver views.

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