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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 375 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300106165
  • 9780300106169
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 917.306 22
LOC classification:
  • TX909 .S25 2007
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.
Summary: Presents a history of the nineteenth-century first-class hotel, of what hotels have meant to American business, culture, and racial politics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-356) and index.

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.

Presents a history of the nineteenth-century first-class hotel, of what hotels have meant to American business, culture, and racial politics.

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