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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Unfolding Feminism: Letters, Networks and Friendships -- 1.1 An Epistolary Portrait -- 1.2 Epistolary Education -- 1.3 Book Structure -- Chapter 2: Bodichon's Epistolary Bildung: Learning, Narratives and Agency -- 2.1 Epistolary Bildung -- 2.2 Wilhelm von Humboldt and Bildung -- 2.3 Narrative Bildung: The Gebildet Epistolary Self -- 2.4 Fragmented Narrative Agency -- 2.5 Bodichon's Epistolary 'I,' 'You' and 'She' -- 2.6 Intersubjective Epistolary 'Truth' -- 2.7 Editorial Rationale -- Chapter 3: 'A Peculiar Education': Epistolary Networks, Knowledge and Critical Thinking -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 '[B]etter Education Both of Teachers and Pupils' -- 3.3 'Bible, Testament, Testament, Bible' -- 3.4 Better Education for Women -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: 'To Be Happy Is to Work, Work - Work - Work': Affection, Creativity and Self-Fulfilment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 'Every Human Being Should Work' -- 4.3 Bourgeois Female Domesticity -- 4.4 Paid Work -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: 'Improbable That We Should Agree in the Choice of Husbands': Love, Marriage and Silences -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 'Women Should Not Make Love Their Profession' -- 5.3 Married Life and Personal Space -- 5.4 Telling Silences -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: 'Slavery is … Allied to the Injustice to Women': Morality, Equality and Citizenship -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Citizenship is an honour' -- 6.3 Bodichon's Travelling Self -- 6.4 Travelling Letters -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7: 'Bringing Home Bamboos to Paint': Artistry, Aesthetics and Power -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 'It is Really Pitiful to See So Much Pure Beauty Unappreciated Everywhere in Spain' -- 7.3 Artistic Self-Belief -- 7.4 A Hybrid Cultural Mediation -- 7.5 Conclusion.

The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' is devoured by over three million hungry readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia is a completely new portrayal of one of Europe's most fascinating and chaotic countries. Uncovering the role of major and minor sports in its social, economic and political modernization, Simon Martin connects the politics of each period with the sporting issues, personalities, heroes and villains that have shaped Italy's development. Questioning why sport is so important in Italy, he sheds light on the stereotype of a nation obsessed by football, fights, fast cars and fast women, while showing its broader contribution to mass popular culture, through film, tourism, the Ferrari and the Vespa. Following the highs and lows of the nation's history, from Liberal Italy's sporting pioneers, to Mussolini, the 1960 Rome Olympics and the Berlusconi era, Sport Italia's marathon journey uncovers heroic defeats, national triumphs, canonised cyclists and sporting Popes, along with the drug dealers, fraudsters, terrorists and politicians that have tarnished its name.The one thing capable of uniting Italians, sport is also revealed as one of the nation's greatest sources of division: one that has probed and occasionally widened the deep fractures within its identity. Tracing how sport became a pillar of Italian society and a political football in its own right that has changed the face of Italy, Sport Italia reveals a novel and previously unexplored element of the history of a society and its state, which will be an essential read for sports fans, historians and students alike.

Emerging from the Balkan wars and the London Conference of Ambassadors of 1913, the nation state of Albania frustrated the expansionist ambitions of Serbia and Greece which had planned to partition the area. Early indications suggested Albania would be, potentially, one of the most destabilising regions of the Balkans. This was primarily due to its geographical position vis à vis the Adriatic coast, and to the manner in which the Great Powers deemed Albanian independence an issue of international concern. For Britain, the proximity of the important military base of Malta and the existence of oil in Albania were further reasons why Italian domination had to be checked, and it is of little surprise that Albania quickly became the focus of attention for jealous and covetous eyes.

In vielen Volkswirtschaften gehört der Tourismus zu den bedeutendsten Wirtschaftssektoren und bildet einen zentralen Wirtschaftsfaktor. Im Vordergrund dieses Lehrbuches steht eine raumwissenschaftliche Betrachtung der Tourismuswirtschaft. Es vermittelt wichtiges Grundlagenwissen über die Tourismusgeographie als Teilgebiet der Wirtschaftsgeographie und stellt eine wichtige Lektüre für tourismuswissenschaftliche Vorlesungen dar. Neben den räumlichen Auswirkungen des Tourismus auf Wirtschaft, Landschaft, Umwelt, Kultur etc. sowie dem touristischen Angebot und der Nachfrage liegt der Fokus vor allem auf der räumlichen Abgrenzung und Einordnung der Destination als zentraler geographischer Untersuchungsgegenstand. Ferner spielen Reiseströme und deren Erfassung und Abbildung mittels touristischer Kennzahlen eine bedeutende Rolle. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bilden touristisch relevante Methoden der Wirtschaftsgeographie wie die Analyse von Akteuren und Netzwerken, Entscheidungsprozesse bei der Standortwahl, Interpretation kartographischer Darstellungen, Mental Maps etc. Karten und Abbildungen illustrieren den Stoff, Infoboxen thematisieren ausgewählte touristische Märkte. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende im Bachelor und Master in den Fachrichtungen Tourismuswirtschaft, Tourismusmanagement und Tourismusgeographie. Auch Schüler der gymnasialen Oberstufe und Praktiker, die sich mit raumrelevanten Fragestellungen der Tourismuswirtschaft befassen, profitieren.