Power and Politics at the Seaside: the Development of Devon's Resorts in the Twentieth Century. (Reviews of Books).

Nigel J. Morgan & Annette Pritchard. Power and Politics at the Seaside: the Development of Devon's Resorts in the Twentieth Century. Exeter: University of Exeter Press; dist. by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. 1999. Pp. ix, 243. $75.00. ISBN 0-85989-571-8.

John Walton's recently published The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century (2001), offers a brilliant and definitive history of the traditional British holiday throughout the twentieth century. That is not, however, to say the subject is closed. Walton himself admits that his work might ...

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