Revisiting Austria

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Revisiting Austria

Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present

Media studies European history Tourism geography

Author: Gundolf Graml

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Collection: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

Language: English

Published by: Berghahn Books

Published on: 9th April 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 9 Mb

ISBN: 9781789204490


Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria’s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nation’s cities, spa towns, and wilderness areas, a phenomenon that would prove immensely influential on the development of a postwar identity. Revisiting Austria incorporates films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

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