Playing tourist : The Grand Tour and cartographic board games of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Author:

De Cola, Christina

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

[New York City] : The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2020 and ©2020

Subject:

Board games - England - History - 18th century
Board games - England - History - 19th century
Educational games - England - History - 18th century
Educational games - England - History - 19th century
British - Travel - Europe - History
Europe - Description and travel
Europe - In popular culture
Grand tours (Education)

Contributor:

Collins, Jeffrey Laird, advisor
Meyer, Caspar, reader

Description:

vi, 68 leaves : color illustrations, maps 28 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-68)

Contents:

The first 'tour' games (1759-1787) -- Travel restrictions and immersive play (1810-1875) -- Grand tourists no more : mass tourism and the late nineteenth-century need for speed

Note:

See Librarian

Collection:

BGC Thesis Collection