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Revised and Updated with a New Introduction During the 19th century
the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic
fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has
been created in large measure by the writing of women travelers
such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these
women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were
adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the
countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not
only as travelers but also in the fields of medical and military
service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did
these women contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of
women's horizons and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for
women in society in general. Contents: Editorial Introduction:
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Outward and Inward Frontiers - Two
Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1861-1875: G.M. MacKenzie
and A.P. Irby - Edith Durham, Traveller and Publicist - Edith
Durham as a Collector - Emily Balch: Balkan Traveller, Peace Worker
and Nobel Laureate - The Work of British Medical Women in Serbia
during and after the First World War - Captain Flora Sandes: A Case
Study in the Social Construction of Gender in a Serbian Context -
Rose Wilder Lane: 1886-1968 - Rebecca West, Gerda and the Sense of
Process - Margaret Masson Hasluck - Louisa Rayner: An
Englishwoman's Experiences in Wartime Yugoslavia - Mercia
MacDermott: A Woman of the Frontier - An Anthropologist in the
Village - Bucks, Brides and Useless Baggage: Women's Quest for a
Role in their Balkan Travels - Constructing 'the Balkans' - Women
Travellers in the Balkans: A Bibliographical Guide. John B. Allcock
is head of the Research Unit in South East European Studies and is
based in the Interdisciplinary Human Studies department at the
University of Bradford; Antonia Young is a member of the Department
for Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, New York
The demise of Yugoslavia resulted in a savage internal conflict
that confounded European efforts to prevent it. Intense and often
instantaneous media coverage tended to produce a confusing maze of
images and impressions. This timely, easy to use reference work
surveys the origins, development, people, places, events, concepts,
treaties, and agreements pertaining to the conflict in the former
Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Includes A-Z entries spanning topics from
Albania and Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide and the International
Monetary Fund Also includes an introduction, illustrations, maps,
chronology, bibliography, and extensive cross-references
Tourism is fast becoming a prominent feature of daily life. Despite this, recent literature on the topic of tourism and tourist studies is relatively sparse. Now, in International Tourism, a team of distinguished contributors offers new insights into theories of tourism and touristic practices. Contributors move away from the traditional paradigm in tourist studies that focused almost exclusively on the effects or consequences of tourism. Instead, they convincingly reconceptualize tourism, offering a theoretically sophisticated reappraisal of tourism as a transnational global issue. Replete with illustrative case studies, this volume rethinks many of the assumptions inherent in tourism research. International Tourism is a must for all scholars and students in sociology, leisure studies, and tourism studies.
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