Cultural Tourism and Royal Tours: Possession and Place-Making
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Eva Giloi
Abstract
This chapter examines bourgeois cultural tourism and royal tours of the realm as two forms of place-making. In both cases, sovereigns and private citizens sought to take possession of space and demonstrate their authority over the urban landscape through the habitus that guided their movements. The chapter examines three distinct types of tourism. First, it illuminates the transformation of early modern royal tours from territorial possession to national patronage as part of the nationalization of monarchy in the nineteenth century. Next, it focuses on cultural tourism as a form of cultural hegemony that reinforced the dominance of educated middle-class men. Epiphanic tourism and the family vacation, as two particular modes of middle-class tourism, developed a habitus that reinforced the cultural capital of the bourgeoisie. Finally, the chapter turns to armchair tourism as it developed in the growing consumer economy at the beginning of the twentieth century, which drew on browsing and ‘sampling’ as modes of experience. In this last development, new publications and visual technologies turned royals into metonyms for foreign places, a transformation that still influences the role that monarchies play in the tourist industry today.
Abstract
This chapter examines bourgeois cultural tourism and royal tours of the realm as two forms of place-making. In both cases, sovereigns and private citizens sought to take possession of space and demonstrate their authority over the urban landscape through the habitus that guided their movements. The chapter examines three distinct types of tourism. First, it illuminates the transformation of early modern royal tours from territorial possession to national patronage as part of the nationalization of monarchy in the nineteenth century. Next, it focuses on cultural tourism as a form of cultural hegemony that reinforced the dominance of educated middle-class men. Epiphanic tourism and the family vacation, as two particular modes of middle-class tourism, developed a habitus that reinforced the cultural capital of the bourgeoisie. Finally, the chapter turns to armchair tourism as it developed in the growing consumer economy at the beginning of the twentieth century, which drew on browsing and ‘sampling’ as modes of experience. In this last development, new publications and visual technologies turned royals into metonyms for foreign places, a transformation that still influences the role that monarchies play in the tourist industry today.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Staging Authority: Introduction 1
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Traditional and New Forms of Authority
- Charisma and Authority 27
- Napoleon III: The ‘People’s King’ 51
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The Diversification of Authority: New Actors among Old Elites
- The Social Promise of Scientific Progress: Technical Experts and the Quest for Authority 91
- Clergy, Mystics, and Religious Leaders 125
- Mass Media: Intimacy at a Distance 155
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Presenting Authority on the Political Stage
- Architecture, Space, and Emotions: Forging Connections between Government and Public 191
- Parliamentary Authority and British Political Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century 225
- Monarchical Entries in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Emperor Wilhelm I, 1848-1888 259
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Nationalism and Empire as Modes of Hegemony
- Mapping Empire 303
- Imperial Reach: European Explorers and Imperial Agents in the Middle East 339
- Modern Monarchic Visibility in Eurasian Empires 363
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Taking Possession of Public Spaces
- Civil Society and the Embodiment of Authority 395
- Cultural Tourism and Royal Tours: Possession and Place-Making 417
- Uncivilized and Noisy: Disciplining Listening in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Cities 455
- List of Illustrations 487
- Authors’ Biographies 491
- Index 495
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Staging Authority: Introduction 1
-
Traditional and New Forms of Authority
- Charisma and Authority 27
- Napoleon III: The ‘People’s King’ 51
-
The Diversification of Authority: New Actors among Old Elites
- The Social Promise of Scientific Progress: Technical Experts and the Quest for Authority 91
- Clergy, Mystics, and Religious Leaders 125
- Mass Media: Intimacy at a Distance 155
-
Presenting Authority on the Political Stage
- Architecture, Space, and Emotions: Forging Connections between Government and Public 191
- Parliamentary Authority and British Political Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century 225
- Monarchical Entries in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Emperor Wilhelm I, 1848-1888 259
-
Nationalism and Empire as Modes of Hegemony
- Mapping Empire 303
- Imperial Reach: European Explorers and Imperial Agents in the Middle East 339
- Modern Monarchic Visibility in Eurasian Empires 363
-
Taking Possession of Public Spaces
- Civil Society and the Embodiment of Authority 395
- Cultural Tourism and Royal Tours: Possession and Place-Making 417
- Uncivilized and Noisy: Disciplining Listening in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Cities 455
- List of Illustrations 487
- Authors’ Biographies 491
- Index 495
