Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 324 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195055845
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9780195055849
Content:
This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-314) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Recuperation and Recreation: The Pursuit of Health and Genteel Pleasures; 2 "Summer hotels are everywhere . . .": A Flood of Vacationers; 3 "through the streets in bathing costumes": Resort Vacations, 1850-1900; 4 "No late hours, no headache in the morning . . .": Self-Improvement Vacations; 5 "a jaunt . . . agreeable and instructive": The Vacationer as Tourist; 6 "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": Camping Vacations; Part Two: Into the Twentieth Century; 7 "Vacations do not appeal to them . . .": Extending Vacations to the Working Class
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8 Crossing Class and Racial Boundaries: Vacationing in the Early Twentieth Century9 "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": Vacationing During the Depression; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195055849
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Working At Play : A History of Vacations in the United States
Language:
English
