Hotel : an American History /
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| Author / Creator: | Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. |
| Description: | 375 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6654374 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Buildings and systems. 1. A public house for a new republic: inventing the American hotel, 1789-1815
- 2. Palaces of the public: the American hotel comes of age, 1815-1840
- 3. The hotel system: assembling a transcontinental accommodation network, 1840-1876
- 4. Imperial hotels and hotel empires: tourism, expansion, standardization, and the beginning of the end of a hotel age, 1876-1908
- pt. II. Hospitality. 5. The house of strangers: the transformation of hospitality and the everyday life of the hotel
- 6. The law of hospitality: the common law of innkeepers and the public space of the hotel
- 7. Unruly guests and anxious hosts: sex, theft, and violence at the hotel
- pt. III. A nation of hosts and guests. 8. American forum: hotels and civil society
- 9. Homes for a world of strangers: house, hotel, apartment building
- 10. Accommodating Jim Crow: the law of hospitality and the struggle for civil rights.
