TY - BOOK AU - Sandoval-Strausz,A.K. TI - Hotel: an American history SN - 9780300106169 (cloth) U1 - 917.306 PY - 2007/// CY - New Haven, Conn., London PB - Yale University Press KW - Hotels KW - United States KW - History KW - Social aspects N1 - 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 ER -