Resorts and ports : European seaside towns since 1700 / edited by Peter Borsay and John K. Walton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the resort-port relationship / Peter Borsay and John K. Walton -- Towns of "health and mirth" : the first seaside resorts, 1730-1769 / Allan Brodie -- A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a seaside resort, fishing village, and port, c. 1700-1900 / Jan Hein Furnée -- "From the temple of Hygeia to the sordid devotees of Pluto." The Hotwell and Bristol : resort and port in the eighteenth century / David Hussey -- Three views of Brighton as a resort / Fred Gray -- From port to resort : Tenby and narratives of transition, 1760-1914 / Peter Borsay -- A town divided? sea-bathing, dock-building, and oyster-fishing in nineteenth-century Swansea / Louise Miskell -- Port and resort : symbiosis and conflict in "Old Whitby," England, since 1880 / John K. Walton -- Recycled maritime culture and landscape : various aspects of nineteenth-century shipping and fishing industries to twentieth-century tourism in southern Norway / Berit Eide Johnsen -- Gijcentn : from asturian regional port and industrial city, to touristic and cultural centre -- For the European Atlantic arc, from the nineteenth century to the present / Guy Saupin -- From a Baltic village to a leading health resort : reminiscences of the social history of Jurmala, Latvia / Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska -- From port to resort : art, heritage, and identity in the regeneration of Margate / Jason Wood.

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