The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Introduction / Walton, John K. -- Chapter 1. Empires of Travel: British Guide Books and Cultural Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries / MacKenzie, John M. -- Chapter 2. ‘How and Where To Go’: The Role of Travel Journalism in Britain and...

Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Paradox of Peripherality -- 1. Perceptions from the Periphery: The Experience of Wales -- 2. PACE: Guiding Rural Tourism Development in a Fragile Area -- 3. Peripheries, Artificial Peripheries and Centres -- 4. Tourist Perceptions of the Ultimate European...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents in Brief -- Contents -- General Introduction / Ford, Janet / Reifner, Udo -- European Declaration for Social Consumer Rights -- Volume I: Social Banking and New Poverty -- Part I: Economic Development and Private Indebtedness -- Chapter 1. Social Banking and...