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The Delicious History of the Holiday. . - Reviews - book review
Contemporary Review, June, 2002
The Delicious History of the Holiday. Fred Inglis. Routledge. [pounds sterling]55.00. 206 pages. ISBN 0-415-13304-1. Holidays, Prof. Inglis writes, are 'one of the local triumphs of consumer capitalism, however much its fearsome engines drive towards destruction'. The book, which is about 'the love of vacations and their history', and the rise of consumerism, basically follows an historical, as opposed to analytical, approach and its tone is 'celebratory'.
After an opening discussion of thc nature of holidays the author follows the growth of holiday-making from the eighteenth century to the present. He discusses the Grand Tour, the growth of the seaside, the association of luxury with holidays, the development of the holiday as a time for dangerous adventures, the importance of the Mediterranean and, finally, the attraction of visiting foreign cities. His history is sometimes rather weak: it is simply wrong to say that the Grand Tour began in the 1760s, that the eighteenth century political establishment was 'Tory' or that Thomas Cook was a Baptist minister. (T.B.)
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