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.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802095183
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802095183
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4672596
