Histories of Leisure

Rudy Koshar DAAD Professor of German and European Studies,University of Wisconsin at Madison

'[Histories of Leisure] brings a much-needed European perspective to the history of leisure, a subject which has previously tended to be looked at from the perspective of individual national experiences ... It adds substantially to the currently fashionable study of cultures of consumption.'Economic History Review'Framed as these chapters are within the book's wider remit of an examination of the cultures of consumption, they offer the perfect interaction between the history of sport and its partner sub-discipline, the history of leisure.Journal of Contemporary History 'Koshar's introductory essay presents an excellent overview on approaches to and definition of leisure and its practices and rituals. Uniformly well written with fresh insights into gender, culture and the political and social life of modern Europe.'Choice

• Introduction Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin at Madison Museums: Leisure Between State and Distinction Nick Prior, University of Edinburgh The Circus and Nature in Late Georgian England Marius Kwint, University of Oxford Flaneurs in Paris and Berlin Esther Leslie, Bicycling, Class and Politics of Leisure in Belle Epoque France Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University 'As I Walked Along the Bois de Boulogne': Subversive Performances and Masculine Pleasures in Fin-de-Siecle London Christopher Breward, London College of Fashion Crowd Control: Boxing Spectatorship and Social Order in Weimar Germany Erik Jensen, University of Wisconsin at Madison Travels with Baedeker: The Guidebook and the Middle Classes in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Jan Palmowski, King's College, London 'Every German Visitor has a vlkisch obligation he must fulfill.' Naitonalist Tourism in the Austrian Empire, 1880-1918' Pieter Judson, Swarthmore College La Vielle France as Object of Bourgeois Desire: The Touring Club of France and the French Regions, 1890-1918 Patrick Young, Brooklyn College The Michelin Red Guides: Social Differentiation in Early Twentieth-Century French Tourism Stephen L. Harp, The University of Akron Germans at the Wheel: Cars and Leisure in Interwar Germany Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin at Madison Confessional Drinking: Catholic Workingmen's Clubs and Alcohol Consumption in Wilhelmine Germany Robert Goodrich, Augustana College Hollywood Glamor and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy Stephen Gundle, University of London Leisure, Politics and the Consumption of Tobacco in Britain since the Nineteenth Century Mathew Hilton, University of Birmingham