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Author Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.

Title Hotel : an American history / A.K. Sandoval-Strausz.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  917.306 Sa57h 2007    ---  Available
Description 375 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-356) and index.
Summary Presents a history of the nineteenth-century first-class hotel, of what hotels have meant to American business, culture, and racial politics.
Contents Pt. I: Buildings and systems. A public house for a new republic : inventing the American hotel, 1789-1815 ; Palaces of the public : the American hotel comes of age, 1815-1840 ; The hotel system : assembling a transcontinental accommodation network, 1840-1876 ; Imperial hotels and hotel empires : tourism, expansion, standardization, and the beginning of the end of a hotel age, 1876-1908 -- pt. II: Hospitality. The house of strangers : the transformation of hospitality and the everyday life of the hotel ; The law of hospitality : the common law of innkeepers and the public space of the hotel ; Unruly guests and anxious hosts : sex, theft, and violence at the hotel -- pt. III: A nation of hosts and guests. American forum : hotels and civil society ; Homes for a world of strangers : house, hotel, apartment building ; Accommodating Jim Crow : the law of hospitality and the struggle for civil rights.
Subject Hotels -- United States -- History.
Hotels -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN 0300106165 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300106169 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 11291476
AU@ 000041381389

 
    
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