Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-45 (A Johns Hopkins paperback) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Belasco, Warren James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801857341 ISBN 13: 9780801857348

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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Book by Belasco PhD Dr Warren James

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"A marvelously documented study of the evolution of American touring habits and of the infrastructure that arose to support them." -- New York Times

"Beyond being a thoroughly researched and insightful account of the origins of the motel industry, Americans on the Road is a major contribution to our understanding of basic processes of change in twentieth-century American civilization. This first-class analysis of a facet of the American automobile revolution is brilliantly conceived, erudite, and entertaining. It is the most important book on American tourism to appear since Earl Pomeroy's 1957 In Search of the Golden West and deserves to be read by anyone interested in American social and/or cultural history." -- James J. Flink, Journal of American History

"Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the subject." -- American Institute of Architects Journal

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In Americans on the Road, Warren James Belasco uses travel magazines, trade journals, and diaries to "look at what Americans actually did with their cars rather than try to judge what cars did to Americans." Belasco begins with the earliest days of automobile travel in America--when travelers camped wherever they stopped along the roadside, "gypsying" in their cars or in tents--and moves on to chart the growth in the 1920s of free municipal campsites. As the cost of building and maintaining these campsites steadily rose, towns began requiring patrons to pay a small fee. The steady stream of paying customers prompted entrepreneurs to build inexpensive restaurants and lodgings--and, Belasco concludes, "the motel industry was born."

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801857341
• ISBN 13: 9780801857348
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224