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Backpack ambassadors : how youth travel integrated Europe / Richard Ivan Jobs.
Author
Jobs, Richard Ivan
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Description
360 pages ; 24 cm
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G156.5.Y6 J63 2017
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Youth
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Travel
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Europe
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History
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International travel
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Europe
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History
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20th century
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Europe
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History
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1945-
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Summary note
Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In 'Backpack Ambassadors', Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly helping knit the continent together. From the Berlin Wall to the beaches of Spain, the Spanish Steps in Rome to the Pudding Shop in Istanbul, Jobs tells the stories of backpackers whose personal desire for freedom of movement brought the people and places of Europe into ever-closer contact. As greater and greater numbers of young people trekked around the continent, and a truly international youth culture began to emerge, the result was a Europe that, even in the midst of Cold War tensions, found its people more and more connected, their lives more and more integrated. Drawing on archival work in eight countries and five languages, and featuring trenchant commentary on the relevance of this period for contemporary concerns about borders and migration, Backpack Ambassadors brilliantly recreates a movement that was far more influential and important than its footsore travelers could ever have realized.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-346) and index.
Contents
Backpack ambassadors
Youth mobility and the making of Europe
Journeys of reconciliation
Youth movements
Continental drifters
East of the wall, south of the sea
Rights of passage.
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ISBN
9780226438979 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
022643897X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226462035 ((pbk.))
022646203X ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016044002
OCLC
959667388
Other standard number
40027171702
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