Eric G. E. Zuelow, Ph.D.
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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
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
“Afterword: Empire and Tourism,” Itinerario Special Issue: Colonial Baggage (forthcoming 2024).
(with Patrizia Battilani, Bertram M. Gordon, Jan Hein Furnée, Kevin J. James, and Richard White), “Discussion: Teaching Tourism History,” 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), “Discussion: Tourism and Empire,” Journal of Tourism History, 7:1-2 (April-August 2015): 100-130
“ ‘Kilts versus Breeches’: The Royal Visit, Tourism, and Scottish National Memory,” Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 7:2 (2006): 33-53
“ ‘Ingredients for Cooperation’: The Role of Irish Tourism in North-South Relations, 1924-1998,” New Hibernia Review 10:1 (Spring 2006): 17-39
“Enshrining Ireland’s Nationalist History Inside Prison Walls: The Restoration of Kilmainham Jail,” Éire-Ireland 39 (Fall/Winter 2004): 180-201
Book Chapters
“Tourism, Nations, and Nationalism,” in Eric G.E. Zuelow and Kevin J. James (eds), Oxford Handbook on Tourism and Travel (Oxford: Oxford University of Press, 2024).
“Holydays, Holidays, and Tourism,” in Brett M. Bebber (ed.), A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age(London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 119-137
“Negotiating National Identity Through Tourism in Colonial South Asia and Beyond” in Matthew D’Auria, Cathie Carmichael, and Aviel Roshwald (eds), Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism, Vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 640-660
“Introduction,” in James and Zuelow (eds), Tourism History in Ulster and Scotland (see above), 1-14
“The Necessity of Crossing Borders: An Introduction,” in Zuelow (ed.), Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (see above), 1-16
“Made in Ireland? Irish Tourism in an International Context,” in Zuelow (ed.), Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (see above), 151-170
“National Identity and Tourism in Twentieth Century Ireland: The Role of Collective Re-Imagining,” 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) “The Owl’s Early Flight: Globalization and Nationalism, An Introduction,” in Young, Zuelow, and Sturm (eds), Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (see above), 1-13
“The Tourism Nexus: The Meanings of Tourism and Identity since the Irish Civil War,” in Mark McCarthy (ed.), Ireland’s 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)
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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
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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