| Ways of Escape: Modern Transformation in Leisure and Travel Contributor(s): Rojek, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847678989 ISBN-13: 9780847678983 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1994 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.481 |
| LCCN: 93033328 |
| Series: Postmodern Social Futures |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (1.06 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ways of Escape provides a history of leisure and travel and a cartography of "escape activity". The author examines how pleasure has been managed from the middle ages to the present day, and examines the differences in leisure and travel opportunities for men and women. Rojek situates leisure and travel in the context of the debate on modernity and postmodernity, and uses examples drawn from Europe and North America to produce a dazzling analysis of the experience and ideology of escape in Western society. |