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Subject(s)

• Dark tourism [Browse]
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Pacific Ocean [Browse]

Editor

• Hartmann, Rudi [Browse]

Summary note

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract. It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, China, Japan and the United States were affected by wars, conflicts and crises.

Notes

Includes index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Preface and acknowledgments
• Introduction: main themes and structure of the book
• 1 Research note Dark tourism, thanatourism, and dissonance in heritage tourism management: new directions in contemporary tourism research (Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2014, Vol. 9, No. 2, 166-182)
• 1 Extension to research note "dark tourism, thanatourism, and dissonance in heritage tourism management: new directions in contemporary tourism research" (Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2014, Vol. 9, No 2, 166-182) for the time period 2013-2023
• Part I: Introduction Memorials of the Holocaust: the evolution of a new memorial landscape for the victims of Nazi Germany: the long and complicated path to the recognition of the former Nazi concentration camps as memorials and museums with interpretive centers
• 2 The memorial site at the former Dachau concentration camp (1933-1945): a dissonant heritage for a small Bavarian market town and city which has become an internationally recognized destination
• 3 The long and twisted road to a memorial: the Kaufering satellite camp complex of the Dachau Concentration Camp and the difficulties of coming to terms with the past
• 4 German landscapes of commemoration: the difficult legacy of wartime aerospace industries
• 5 Amsterdam under Nazi Germany Occupation Remembered (1940-1945)
• Part II: Introduction Remembering the Pacific War: contrasting interpretations of the Pacific War events 1937-1945 and distinct forms of commemoration: the Japanese Greater East Asian War, Chinese resistance against the Japanese occupying forces and a Pacific wide engagement of the U.S. forces after the Pearl Harbor attack December 7, 1941.
• 6 Tourism to Lu Gou Qiao: enduring scenic qualities of a landmark bridge and a difficult legacy of a conflict site (Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol. 16, 2021, Issue 6, 705-715)
• 7 Remembering Japanese American confinement: memorial practices at Amache and Manzanar
• 8 Disconnection and continuity of war memories and battleship Yamato
• 9 'Kamikaze' heritage tourism in Japan: a pathway to peace and understanding? (Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol. 15, 2020, Issue 6, 709-726)
• 10 Chinese students confront the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
• Conclusion
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-04-012527-1
• 1-04-012548-4
• 0-367-82379-9

OCLC

1455133872

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