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BritainandtheWorld EditedbyTheBritishScholarSociety Editors: JamesOnley,UniversityofExeter,UK A.G.Hopkins,UniversityofCambridge,UK GregoryBarton,TheAustralianNationalUniversity,Australia BryanGlass,TexasStateUniversity,USA TitlesintheBritainandtheWorldseriesinclude: BenjaminGrob-Fitzgibbon IMPERIALENDGAME Britain’sDirtyWarsandtheEndofEmpire BrettBennettandJosephM.Hodge(editors) SCIENCEANDEMPIRE KnowledgeandNetworksofScienceintheBritishEmpire, 1850–1970 JohnFisher BRITISHDIPLOMACYANDTHEDESCENTINTOCHAOS TheCareerofJackGarnett,1902–1919 SpencerMawby ORDERINGINDEPENDENCE TheEndofEmpireintheAnglophoneCaribbean1947–1967 RichardScully BRITISHIMAGESOFGERMANY Admiration,AntagonismandAmbivalence,1860–1914 JoeEaton THEANGLO-AMERICANPAPERWAR DebatesabouttheNewRepublic,1800–1825 HelenevonBismarck BRITISHPOLICYINTHEPERSIANGULF,1961–1968 ConceptionsofInformalEmpire JamesBurns CINEMAANDSOCIETYINTHEBRITISHEMPIRE,1895–1940 MartinFarrandXavierGuégan(editors) THEBRITISHABROADSINCETHEEIGHTEENTHCENTURY Vol.1:TravellersandTourists Vol.2:ExperiencingImperialism Forthcomingtitlesinclude: BarryGough THEPAXBRITANNICA NavyandEmpire JohnGriffiths IMPERIALCULTUREINANTIPODEANCITIES,1880–1939 BritainandtheWorld SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–24650–8hardcover SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–24651–5spaperback (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order. Please contact your bookseller, or write to us at the address below with your nameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandoneoftheISBNsquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1 Travellers and Tourists Editedby Martin Farr SchoolofHistory,ClassicsandArchaeology,NewcastleUniversity,UK and Xavier Guégan DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofWinchester,UK Editorialmatter,selection,Introduction,index©MartinFarrand XavierGuégan2013 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-30414-8 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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To our colleagues, friends and lovers in Newcastle This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures ix SeriesPreface x PrefaceandAcknowledgements xi NotesonContributors xiii Introduction 1 MartinFarrandXavierGuégan Part I ClassesofTravel 1 BritishTouristsandtheBeachesofEurope,fromthe EighteenthCenturytothe1960s 19 JohnK.Walton 2 IsBritishnessAlwaysBritish?CountryHouses,Travelandthe CosmopolitanIdentityoftheBritishEliteintheEighteenth Century 38 StephanieBarczewski 3 Technology,ImperialConnectionsandRoyalTourismonthe PrinceofWales’s1875VisittoIndia 56 JoeDeSapio Part II Europe 4 ‘OntheContinong’:BritonsAbroadandthe‘Businessof Travel’,1820–1914 77 JillSteward 5 The‘Alien’European:BritishAccountsofPortugaland thePortuguese,1780–1850 101 MariaClaraPaulino 6 TheLacunaeofHeliosis:PackageHolidaysandthe Long1970s 117 MartinFarr vii viii Contents Part III TheEmpire... 7 BritishTravellersandtheInvisibilityofAustralia’sPast, 1868–1910 139 RichardWhite 8 SecuringShanghai:BritishWomenArtistsand‘Their’City 159 CatherineMacKenzie 9 CarryOnuptheNile:TheTouristGazeandtheBritish ExperienceofEgypt,1818–1932 176 PeterLyth Part IV ...andBeyond 10 BritishTravelWritingandtheJapaneseInterior,1854–99 197 AndrewElliott 11 SoNearandYetSoFar:BritishTourisminAlgiers,1860–1914 217 KennethJ.Perkins 12 LostHorizons:BritishTravellerstoTibetandtheHimalayasin theTwentiethCentury 236 TomNeuhaus Index 254 Figures 4.1 ‘TheGreatBriton’ 78 4.2 ‘Travelwithoutthepain.Advertisement’(n.d.)forHale’s Tours,postcard 79 4.3 ‘Paris:ArcdeTriomphe’(n.d.),postcard 79 4.4 ‘ExpositionUniverselleetInternationale,Liège’(1905), postcard 80 4.5 ‘Pleasureseekers:“Enjoyment”’ 84 4.6 ‘Healthseekerandnetworker:EdwardVIIatMarienbad’ (1903),postcard.SentbyEdwardRennietoMissMary Rennie 88 4.7 ‘CastleVajdaHunyadbeforeitsrestoration’ 90 4.8 ‘CasinodeMonte-Carlo’(c.1900),postcard 92 4.9 ‘Pain’sFeuerworku.Illumination’(Düsseldorf)(1904), postcard 93 9.1 ‘TheGalsworthysinEgypt’(1914) 186 11.1 ‘HotelSt-George,Mustapha-Algiers’(c.1910),postcard 224 ix
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