Browsing Book chapters by Subject "travel literature"

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Globalizing Macau. The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930)

Forêt, Philippe (Routledge, 2006)

This chapter deals with the ambiguity that political authorities feel toward culture and history when they are pressed to enlarge and modernize urban infrastructures. I will discuss the strategy followed by the Harbour ...
Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture

Forêt, Philippe (Chronos Verlag, 2003)

This empirical study on advertising campaigns and the art of running trains in distant places finds its theoretical significance in a view of history where real and imagined geographies interact. The railroad companies of ...