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Hotel dreams: luxury, technology, and urban ambition in America, 1829-1929

Molly W. Berger
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 The Emergence of the American First-Class Hotel, 1820s: "All at Hand, and All of the Best" (page 11)
  • 2 The Tremont House, Boston, 1829: "A Style Entirely New" (page 29)
  • 3 The Proliferation of Antebellum Hotels, 1830-1860: "Every Thing Is on a Gigantic Scale" (page 61)
  • 4 The Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, 1860: "In Reference to the Building of a Monster Hotel" (page 83)
  • 5 Production and Consumption in an American Palace, 1850-1875: "To Keep a Hotel" (page 111)
  • 6 The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 1875: "The Greatest Caravansary in the World" (page 141)
  • 7 The "New" Modern Hotel, 1880-1920: "It Is Part of the Hotel Business to Hide All These Things from View" (page 177)
  • 8 The Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1927: "Virtually a Multiple of Twenty-Five Small Hotels" (page 217)
  • Conclusion (page 242)
  • Acknowledgments (page 259)
  • Notes (page 263)
  • Essay on Sources (page 297)
  • Index (page 307)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TC 53.2 (Apr. 2012): 490-491 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41475520
JDH 25.1 (2012): 111-112 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41419663
BHR 86.1 (Spring 2012): 161-163 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23239473
JSocH 46.4 (Summer 2013): 1074-1075 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v046/46.4.longstreth.html
EnS 14.3 (Sep. 2013): 652-654 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/enterprise_and_society/v014/14.3.stradling.html
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Published: c2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Copyright Holder: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801899874 (hardcover)
  • 9781421401843 (ebook)
  • 9781421419923 (paper)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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