UID:
edocfu_9958353096302883
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Prologue --
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Introduction: Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism --
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1. Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism --
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2. The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland --
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3. The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 2: England --
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4. ‘Paddy’s Grief and Native Wit’: Canadian Tourists and Ireland --
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5. ‘The Hot Life of London Is upon Us’: Travel to the Imperial Capital --
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6. The Street, the Regatta, and the Orphanage: The Public and Social Spaces of Tourism in Britain --
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7. ‘This Sight-Seeing Is a Strenuous Business’: European Sojourns, Part 1 --
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8. Natural Wonders and National Cultures: European Sojourns, Part 2 --
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9. ‘A Big Old Country Car, Speeding around a Winding Road’: Transatlantic Tourism in the 1920s --
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Epilogue --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442688186
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688186
