Hotel an American history

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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Main Author: Sandoval-Strusz, A. K.
Format: Book
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 2007
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245 1 0 |a Hotel  |b an American history  |c A.K. Sandoval-Strausz 
260 # # |a New Haven  |b Yale University Press  |c 2007 
300 # # |a 375 p.  |b ill. (some col.), col. maps  |c 27 cm 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-356) and index 
505 1 # |a 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 
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