https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Traveler-s-Ennui https://booksandideas.net/The-Traveler-s-Ennui 2025-07-23T08:00:00Z text/html en Juliette Roussin Philosophy tourism travel <p>What bitter knowledge travel brings! In fact, why travel at all? And can we inhabit the world while journeying through it?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Grand-Tourism-Educational-Journeys-in-18th-Century-Europe https://booksandideas.net/Grand-Tourism-Educational-Journeys-in-18th-Century-Europe 2018-10-29T08:00:00Z text/html en Marion Amblard Arts Enlightenment Great Britain History education Italy culture art history tourism travel Books and ideas originals <p>The Grand Tour was a journey on the European continent undertaken by 17<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> and 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup>-century British aristocrats to perfect their education. This book reveals the importance, within this trip, of a city until now overlooked by scholarship: Turin, a political and cultural crossroad.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Holidays-in-the-Highlands https://booksandideas.net/Holidays-in-the-Highlands 2018-03-01T08:00:00Z text/html en Marion Amblard Society History identity tourism Scotland landscape <p>Long weighed down by historical prejudice, the Highlands slowly started to attract the public's interest from the mid-18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century onwards. With the development of mass tourism, public perceptions of the Scottish region gradually improved, fostering its integration within Great Britain.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Art-of-Not-Doing-Fieldwork https://booksandideas.net/The-Art-of-Not-Doing-Fieldwork 2012-09-05T08:03:06Z text/html en Howard S. Becker France History United States of America sociology tourism <p>In 1930 the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs was invited by the University of Chicago to teach for a few months in the Sociology Department. How did the not very adventurous Halbwachs approach the large city of Chicago ? What did he learn from it? Christian Topalov offers an answer in presenting the comprehensive overview of Halbwachs' writings and correspondance during the course of three months of discovery.</p>