Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe by Richard Ivan Jobs (E

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Backpack Ambassadors by Richard Ivan Jobs 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Richard Ivan Jobs is professor of history at Pacific University in Oregon. He is the author of Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War and coeditor of Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century. Table of Contents Backpack Ambassadors 1 Youth Mobility and the Making of Europe 2 Journeys of Reconciliation 3 Youth Movements 4 Continental Drifters 5 East of the Wall, South of the Sea Rights of Passage Acknowledgments Archives and Libraries Consulted Notes Bibliography Index Review "Backpack Ambassadors is notable for its fusion of diplomatic, cultural, and social history, and admirable for its robustly continental optic and multinational research base. In his effort to capture the experience and the historical significance of youth travel, Jobs moves deftly between diplomatic and organizational files, tourist conditioning texts and personal memoirs, and popular fiction, film and music."-- "The American Historical Review""Backpack Ambassadors is an important example of a transnational and interdisciplinary history which will prove to be an indispensable model for scholars of migration, youth, and/or identity of any period. Using a rich variety of sources, anecdotal, poll-based, cultural, and archival, Jobs creates a vantage point from which to view a myriad of processes that have made, transformed, and redefined what it means to be young, mobile, and European in the postwar age."-- "Europe Now""Backpack Ambassadors marks a true breakthrough in the international history of tourism, particularly because it develops a completely new and convincing approach for our understanding of European integration from 1945 to the present. By linking this important political topic to the everyday practices of youths, Jobs allows us to see it as a result of societal and cultural developments beyond the political sphere rather than a process triggered by initiatives of anonymous European institutions. This is a brilliant book."-- "Detlef Siegfried, University of Copenhagen""Backpack Ambassadors provides historians with crucial new insights into the history of European integration and postwar transnational youth culture. It should become required reading for any graduate or undergraduate course on postwar Europe."-- "H-Diplo""Deeply researched and elegantly written. . .Jobss book opens fruitful avenues for future research. . .In a world defined by the reassertion of national borders, Backpack Ambassadors is an insightful and timely study."-- "Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth""Jobss lively, ambitious, transnational history of youth travel examines the transformative impact of mass travel on post-war Europe. Jobs takes us on a fascinating ride from the optimistic internationalism of the 1950s hostel movement, through the rebellious international youth culture of the 1960s, to the development of an iconic form of backpacking--complete with Lets Go guidebooks--still prevalent today. We see how scores of independent, often idealistic young men and women traveling from Birmingham to Berlin to Budapest gave shape to a new kind of travel culture, a new international youth culture, and, most importantly, to new Europeanized social space."-- "Anne Gorsuch, author of All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin""Young backpackers in Paris and Prague. Middle-aged European Union bureaucrats in Brussels. The surprising connection between these two groups is at the heart of Richard Ivan Jobss Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, a cultural and social history of European integration from below, centered on the unkempt, fun-seeking backpacker. Jobs has produced a methodologically impressive and creative book, which argues that youth tourism--particularly backpacking--was integral to the construction of the European political project in the postwar period. It thus provides a welcome contrast to standard top-down diplomatic and bureaucratic histories of the formation of the European Union. The book also demonstrates the central role that mobility played in defining the European Union and postwar European identity more broadly. . . . Backpack Ambassadors is a thought-provoking book, one as relevant to contemporary issues as it is to historiographical debates."-- "Journal of Modern History""Backpack Ambassadors is a bottom-up history of the construction of Europe as both a political and cultural unit. It offers an account of the history Europe and the European Union that is not dominated by bureaucrats or diplomats, but by the youth who created Europe as they moved through its hostels and railways stations. Jobs has written a model of new transnational history, drawing on extensive research in multiple languages, countries, and archives to make a very convincing case for how the movement of youth across national frontiers shaped several of the major political developments of the postwar era--from postwar reconstruction to Cold War politics, the reconciliation of Germany and France to the social protests of the 1960s, and of course, European unification."--Tara Zahra "author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World""In the era of Trumped-up travel bans and a dis-Maying upsurge in xenophobia, Jobss erudite and lively Backpack Ambassadors offers a bittersweet reminder of hopes for an integrated Europe that may now feel as remote to readers as youth itself. . . . Assiduous archival research, together with compelling narratives of young peoples personal travel experience, including Jobs own, make Backpack Ambassadors a potent antidote to demoralizing accounts of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen."--Book of the Week "Times Higher Education" Review Quote "Young backpackers in Paris and Prague. Middle-aged European Union bureaucrats in Brussels. The surprising connection between these two groups is at the heart of Richard Ivan Jobss Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe , a cultural and social history of European integration from below, centered on the unkempt, fun-seeking backpacker. Jobs has produced a methodologically impressive and creative book, which argues that youth tourism--particularly backpacking--was integral to the construction of the European political project in the postwar period. It thus provides a welcome contrast to standard top-down diplomatic and bureaucratic histories of the formation of the European Union. The book also demonstrates the central role that mobility played in defining the European Union and postwar European identity more broadly. . . . Backpack Ambassadors is a thought-provoking book, one as relevant to contemporary issues as it is to historiographical debates." Details ISBN022643897X Author Richard Ivan Jobs Pages 352 Year 2017 ISBN-10 022643897X ISBN-13 9780226438979 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle How Youth Travel Integrated Europe Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States DEWEY 914.04550835 Illustrations 32 halftones, 1 line drawing Media Book Short Title Backpack Ambassadors Language English Publication Date 2017-05-23 UK Release Date 2017-05-23 AU Release Date 2017-05-23 NZ Release Date 2017-05-23 US Release Date 2017-05-23 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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