The Delicious History of the Holiday.(Review)

FRED INGLIS, The Delicious History of the Holiday (London: Routledge, 2000. Pp.xi + 206; illus. P/back ISBN 0 415 13305 X, [pound]16.99).

This book is not aimed at business historians, though they may derive some useful transferable ideas from (especially) its later chapters. Its intellectual pedigree is drawn from cultural studies, and its vices and virtues are the familiar ones of that constellation of approaches ('disciplines' would be an outmoded and misleading word in this context). Quite why the author describes the method ('if you can call it that') of this 'inq