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Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel / Kevin J. James.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 52Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845416591
  • 9781845416607
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 647.9409 23
LOC classification:
  • TX908 .J358 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hotel History: Interpretations and Approaches -- 3. The American Hotel -- 4. The Colonial Hotel -- 5. The Wartime Hotel -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on three areas of vibrant and timely scholarly enquiry: the uniqueness of the American hotel, the contested status of the colonial and postcolonial hotel, and the hotel's embroilment in violent conflict. It explores the hotel as an institution that incubates innovation, enables commercial relations on a variety of scales, and supplies an arena for negotiating relations of political, cultural, and economic power. The volume presents a number of case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that links the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity. It is aimed at tourism studies scholars, as well as history and critical and applied tourism studies students, at undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hotel History: Interpretations and Approaches -- 3. The American Hotel -- 4. The Colonial Hotel -- 5. The Wartime Hotel -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index

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This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on three areas of vibrant and timely scholarly enquiry: the uniqueness of the American hotel, the contested status of the colonial and postcolonial hotel, and the hotel's embroilment in violent conflict. It explores the hotel as an institution that incubates innovation, enables commercial relations on a variety of scales, and supplies an arena for negotiating relations of political, cultural, and economic power. The volume presents a number of case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that links the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity. It is aimed at tourism studies scholars, as well as history and critical and applied tourism studies students, at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)