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Eric Zuelow

Eric G. E. Zuelow, Ph.D.

Professor

Location

Marcil Hall 204
Biddeford Campus
Eligible for Student Opportunities

Eric G.E. Zuelow (he, him, his) is a professor of European and world history. He specializes in modern Britain and Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the histories of tourism and national identity. He recently added a teaching area in environmental history and is adding more classes in this field each year. Recent offerings include: Environmental History of the Ocean, Environmental History of New England, and Environmental History of the World Parts I & II.

Zuelow is author of A History of Modern Tourism (Palgrave, 2015) and of the award-winning Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse, 2009), editor of Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (Ashgate, 2011), and co-editor of Tourism Histories in Ulster and Scotland: Connections and Comparisons, 1800-1939 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013), and Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations(Routledge, 2007). He is editor-in-chief of Journal of Tourism History which is published three times per year by Taylor and Francis (Routledge). Zuelow is editor of the Histories and Cultures of Tourism book series, published by Cornell University Press and he is a member of the editorial board for the Britain and the World book series which is published by Palgrave; he deals with titles covering the period after 1688. In addition, he is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook to the History of Tourism and Travel.

Credentials

Education

Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
2004
M.A.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1999
B.A.
University of Washington
1996

Research

Current research

I am currently working on a history of empire tourism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition, I am also working away on a project about the changing nature of sociability and nostalgia in England since World War II through the lens of the public house. 

 

Selected publications

Books

Co-Editor (with Kevin J. James), Oxford Handbook to of the History of Tourism and Travel, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024)

A History of Modern Tourism (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) 

(Co-editor with Kevin J. James) Tourism History in Ulster and Scotland: Contexts and Perspectives (Belfast, UK: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013)

(Editor) Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2011)

Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009)

(Co-editor with Mitchell Young and Andreas Sturm) Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations(London: Routledge, 2007)

Journal Articles 

鈥淎fterword: Empire and Tourism,鈥 Itinerario Special Issue: Colonial Baggage (forthcoming 2024).

(with Patrizia Battilani, Bertram M. Gordon, Jan Hein Furn茅e, Kevin J. James, and Richard White), 鈥淒iscussion: Teaching Tourism History,鈥 Journal of Tourism History, 8:1 (April 2016): 57-84

(with Shelley Baranowski, Christopher Endy, Waleed Hazbun, Stephanie Malia Hom, Gordon Pirie, and Trevor Simmons), 鈥淒iscussion: Tourism and Empire,鈥 Journal of Tourism History, 7:1-2 (April-August 2015): 100-130

鈥 鈥楰ilts versus Breeches鈥: The Royal Visit, Tourism, and Scottish National Memory,鈥 Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 7:2 (2006): 33-53

鈥 鈥業ngredients for Cooperation鈥: The Role of Irish Tourism in North-South Relations, 1924-1998,鈥 New Hibernia Review 10:1 (Spring 2006): 17-39

鈥淓nshrining Ireland鈥檚 Nationalist History Inside Prison Walls: The Restoration of Kilmainham Jail,鈥 脡颈谤别-滨谤别濒补苍诲 39 (Fall/Winter 2004): 180-201

Book Chapters

鈥淭ourism, Nations, and Nationalism,鈥 in Eric G.E. Zuelow and Kevin J. James (eds), Oxford Handbook on Tourism and Travel (Oxford: Oxford University of Press, 2024).

鈥淗olydays, Holidays, and Tourism,鈥 in Brett M. Bebber (ed.), A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age(London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 119-137

鈥淣egotiating National Identity Through Tourism in Colonial South Asia and Beyond鈥 in Matthew D鈥橝uria, Cathie Carmichael, and Aviel Roshwald (eds), Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism, Vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 640-660

鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 in James and Zuelow (eds), Tourism History in Ulster and Scotland (see above), 1-14

鈥淭he Necessity of Crossing Borders: An Introduction,鈥 in Zuelow (ed.), Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (see above), 1-16

鈥淢ade in Ireland? Irish Tourism in an International Context,鈥 in Zuelow (ed.), Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (see above), 151-170

鈥淣ational Identity and Tourism in Twentieth Century Ireland: The Role of Collective Re-Imagining,鈥 in Young, Zuelow, and Sturm (eds), Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (see above), 156-175

(With Mitchell Young and Andreas Sturm) 鈥淭he Owl鈥檚 Early Flight: Globalization and Nationalism, An Introduction,鈥 in Young, Zuelow, and Sturm (eds), Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (see above), 1-13

鈥淭he Tourism Nexus: The Meanings of Tourism and Identity since the Irish Civil War,鈥 in Mark McCarthy (ed.), Ireland鈥檚 Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005), 189-213

Forewords

Todd Cleveland, Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023), Foreword, ix-xiv

Blake C. Scott, Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), ix-xiv 

Stephen L. Harp, The Riviera: An Ecohistory of Postwar Tourism and North African Labor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), Foreword, ix-xiv

Yajun Mo, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021), Foreword, ix-xiv

 

 

 

Other scholarly activity

 

Editor, Histories and Cultures of Tourism Book Series (Cornell University Press)

For more information about the series, visit: https://soundcloud.com/user-972332815/1869-episode-42-with-eric-zuelow-series-editor-for-histories-and-cultures-of-tourism.

Editor, 1688-present, Britain and the World Book Series (Palgrave)

For more information about the series, visit: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14795

General Editor, Journal of Tourism History

For more information about the journal, visit: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rjth20#.VFo14WRdWTw 

Co-Editor, Oxford Handbook on the History of Travel and Tourism (in-progress, Oxford University Press)

 

 

 

Research interests

Tourism, National identity, Nostalgia, Sociability, English Public Houses

Research topics

British History
Memory
Modern European History
Tourism, Travel and Leisure