Beyond the Grand Tour : northern metropolises and early modern travel behaviour / edited by Rosemary Sweet, Gerrit Verhoeven and Sarah Goldsmith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sarah Goldsmith, Rosemary Sweet and Gerrit Verhoeven -- The Duc de Rohan's voiage of 1600 : Gallocentric travel to England in the formation of a French noble / Emma Pauncefort -- Foubert's academy : British and Irish elite formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-Century Paris and London / Richard Ansell -- The social challenge : Northern and Central European societies on the eighteenth-century aristocratic grand tour / Sarah Goldsmith -- Abroad, or still "at home"? : young noblemen from the Czech lands and the empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Eva Chodejovsk�a and Zdenek Hojda -- Between specialization and encyclopaedic knowledge : educational travelling and court culture in early eighteenth-century Germany / Mathis Leibetseder -- The petit tour to Spa, 1763-1787 / Richard Bates -- Amsterdam as global market and meeting place of nations : perspectives of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French travellers in Holland / Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau -- The European "grand tour" of Italian entrepreneurs / Corine Maitte -- Young cosmopolitans : Flemish and Dutch youths and their travel behaviour (from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth century) / Gerrit Verhoeven -- Revolutionary ruins : the re-imagination of French touristic sites during the Peace of Amiens / Elodie Duch�e.