Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 Rosenbaum Hardback

Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 18001950Author(s): Adam T. Rosenbaum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107111950, 978-1107111950\nSynopsis\nDuring the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This romanticized version of the present reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science. In an era of rapid and unprecedented change, simultaneously nostalgic and progressive grounded modernity produced an illusion of continuity. It helped make the experience of modernity more tangible by linking impersonal and abstract ideas, like national identity, with familiar experiences and concrete sights. Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, [tel] examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity during this period. It gauges Germany'.