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Format: 1 online resource (486 pages)

ISBN: 9781442688186

Content: A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism -- 1 Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism -- 2 The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland -- 3 The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 2: England -- 4 'Paddy's Grief and Native Wit': Canadian Tourists and Ireland -- 5 'The Hot Life of London Is upon Us': Travel to the Imperial Capital -- 6 The Street, the Regatta, and the Orphanage: The Public and Social Spaces of Tourism in Britain -- 7 'This Sight-Seeing Is a Strenuous Business': European Sojourns, Part 1 -- 8 Natural Wonders and National Cultures: European Sojourns, Part 2 -- 9 'A Big Old Country Car, Speeding around a Winding Road': Transatlantic Tourism in the 1920s -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780802095183

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802095183

Language: English

Keywords: History. ; Biographies. ; Electronic books.

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UID:

Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442688186

Content: A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Prologue -- , Introduction: Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism -- , 1. Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism -- , 2. The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland -- , 3. The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 2: England -- , 4. ‘Paddy’s Grief and Native Wit’: Canadian Tourists and Ireland -- , 5. ‘The Hot Life of London Is upon Us’: Travel to the Imperial Capital -- , 6. The Street, the Regatta, and the Orphanage: The Public and Social Spaces of Tourism in Britain -- , 7. ‘This Sight-Seeing Is a Strenuous Business’: European Sojourns, Part 1 -- , 8. Natural Wonders and National Cultures: European Sojourns, Part 2 -- , 9. ‘A Big Old Country Car, Speeding around a Winding Road’: Transatlantic Tourism in the 1920s -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442688186

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688186

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Format: 1 online resource (486 pages)

ISBN: 9781442688186 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Morgan, Cecilia Louise, 1958- 'Happy holiday' : English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2008 ISBN 9780802095183

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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