UID:
almafu_9959238983202883
Format:
1 online resource (486 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-9241-3
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1-4426-8818-1
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:
Introduction. Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism -- 1. Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism -- 2. Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland -- 3. 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. 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.
,
Issued also in print.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-9518-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-9758-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Biographies.
;
Electronic books.
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History.
;
Biographies.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442688186
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4672596
