Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. <br/><br/>
Hotel :  an American history / 
A.K. Sandoval-Strausz. 
 - 375 pages :  illustrations (some colour), colour maps ;  27 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-356) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Presents a history of the nineteenth-century first-class hotel, of what hotels have meant to American business, culture, and racial politics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300106165 9780300106169 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007010239 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Hotels--History--United States<br/>Hotels--Social aspects--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX909  / .S25 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>917.306