Enacting Brittany

'... a book that stimulates as many intriguing questions as this one is a valuable one indeed. Young's suggestive-and empirically well-grounded-exploration of political, economic, and social uses of "culture" in one corner of France, as these shifted meaning across the decades of the Third Republic, will be of interest to a wide of array of scholars concerned with the history of tourism or heritage studies, as well as to historians of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. Journal of Modern History' 'This is an exceedingly well-researched piece of scholarship, well-grounded in the primary sources and in secondary and theoretical works of relevance. The prose is clear and elegant and Young obviously understands how to render clearly the complicated evolution of notions of the region, tourism, and patrimoine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book successfully offers the regional specificity of older social histories while considering the discursive complexities we today expect of cultural history.' Stephen Harp, The University of Akron, USA '... [A] impressive, deeply researched study of the development of regional tourism in Brittany. ... What Young does demonstrate very well is that the very success of marketing Brittany's place particularity created a set of profound dilemmas that were not easily resolved. His epilogue reminds us that recent debates about the loss of place particularity in the face of globalization? and homogenization are not new. The call to preserve the local in the face of modernizing forces has a long history, and the tensions created by such preservation efforts are a constitutive aspect of modernity itself. These insights make Enacting Brittany a significant contribution to both the field of national and regional identity construction as well as the study of the history of tourism.' H-Net 'This book is an in-depth and well-supported study of tourism and its interactions with and effects on the Breton people and