Adelina Stefan

Vacationing in Dictatorships (eBook, ePUB)

International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Vacationing in Dictatorships examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era. Despite sharp economic and political differences between the two dictatorial regimes at the start of the Cold War, significant similarities existed as both states took advantage of international tourism to improve their image abroad and pursued processes of economic modernization to acquire hard currencies. By the end of the 1970s though, the two countries achieved rather different results in terms of tourism development, despite the fact that both shared many features in the 1940s and 1950s.

By comparing the rise and evolution of international tourism on different sides of the Iron Curtain, Adelina Stefan provides a different assessment of the geopolitics of postwar Europe that further refines the Cold War's geographies separating Eastern and Western Europe. As a result, Vacationing in Dictatorships reveals a new perspective on the Cold War that reveals not only the developmental similarities between Eastern and Southern Europe but also the ideological struggle that pitted socialist East against capitalist West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501778520
• Artikelnr.: 72253224

Autorenporträt

Adelina Stefan is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at University of Luxembourg and Cultural Historian of the Cold War with a focus on tourism and consumption in socialist Romania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Francoist Spainin the 1950s
The 1960s and the "invention" of mass-tourism in two Europeanperipheries
Re-mapping of Tourist Geographies in the 1970s
International Tourism and Changing Patterns of Everyday Life untilthe 1980s
Foreign Tourists and Underground Consumption Practices
Beach tourism on the Black Sea Coast and Costa del Sol
Conclusion