Seductive Journey : American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age /

For centuries, France has cast an extraordinary spell on travelers. Harvey Levenstein's Seductive Journey explains why so many Americans have visited it, and tells, in colorful detail, what they did when they got there. The result is a highly entertaining examination of the transformation of Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levenstein, Harvey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]
Temas:
Americans > France.
Tourism > France > History.
HISTORY / General.
tourism, travel, travelogues, france, expats, jefferson, diplomacy, jazz, class, gender, race, nationality, identity, taste, refinement, transportation, steamship, leisure, sex, sexuality, sensuality, prohibition, overseas, europe, antitourism, nonfiction, history, culture, museums, self improvement, luxury, wealth, machismo, masculinity, femininity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part One. In Search of Taste and Distinction, 1786-1848
  • One. Jefferson versus Adams
  • Two. Getting There Was Not Half the Fun
  • Three. A Man's World
  • Four. Eat, Drink, but Be Wary
  • Five. "The Athens of Modern Europe"
  • Six. Pleasures of the Flesh
  • Part two. Paris and Tourism Transfonned, 1848-1870
  • Seven. Paris Transformed
  • Eight. Keeping Away from the Joneses
  • Nine. The Feminization of American Tourism
  • Part three: Class, Gender, and the Rise of Leisure Tourism, 1870-1914
  • Ten. ''The Golden Age of Travel"
  • Eleven. Prisoners of Leisure: Upper-Class Tourism
  • Twelve. How "The Other Half" Toured
  • Thirteen. Class, Gender, and the Rise of Antitourism
  • Fourteen. Machismo, Morality, and Millionaires
  • Part four: The Invasion of the Lower Orders, 1917-1930
  • Fifteen. Doughboys and Dollars
  • Sixteen. "How're You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?"
  • Seventeen. A Farewell to "Culture Vultures"
  • Eighteen. Unhappy Hosts, Unwelcome Visitors
  • Nineteen. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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