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

By: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2007Description: 375 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780300106169 (cloth); 9780300142020 (pbk.).Subject(s): Hotels -- United States -- History | Hotels -- Social aspects -- United StatesDDC classification: 917.306
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.
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917.304931 UNI 2010 USA / 917.304931 WIL Back to the Badlands : 917.306 KJE 2010 Overnight sensations : 917.306 SAN 2007 Hotel : 917.30609034 BER 2011 Hotel dreams : 917.40443 BRY 2007 A walk in the woods : 917.40444 NEW 2010 New England

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.