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Hotel dreams : luxury, technology, and urban ambition in America, 1829-1929 /
From the time they emerged in American cities in the 1820s, commercial luxury hotels were far more than places where a traveler could eat and sleep-they were icons of style, opulence, and technological sophistication. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in industry and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The emergence of the American first-class hotel, 1820s : "all at hand, and all of the best"
- The Tremont house, Boston, 1829 : "a style entirely new"
- The proliferation of Antebellum hotels, 1830-1860 : "in reference to the building of a monster hotel"
- Production and consumption in an American Palace, 1850-1875 : "to keep a hotel"
- The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 1875 : "the greatest caravansary in the world"
- The "new" modern hotel, 1880-1920 : "it is part of the hotel business to hide all these things from view"
- The Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1927 : "virtually a multiple of twenty-five small hotels."