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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781114503321

Autore

Morgan Cecilia <1958->

Titolo

'A happy holiday' : English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930 / / Cecilia Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9241-3

1-4426-8818-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (486 p.)

Disciplina

914.04

Soggetti

Canadians - Travel - Europe - History

Canadians - Travel - Great Britain - History

Tourism - Europe - History

Tourism - Great Britain - History

Travelers - Canada

History

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Great Britain

Europe

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism -- 1. Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism -- 2. Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland -- 3. Landscape of History and Empire, Part 2: England -- 4. 'Paddy's Grief and Native Wit': Canadian Tourists and Ireland -- 5. 'The Hot Life of London is upon Us': Travel to the Imperial Capital -- 6. Street, the Regatta, and the Orphanage: The Public and Social Spaces of Tourism in Britain -- 7. 'This Sight-Seeing Is a Strenuous Business': European Sojourns, Part 1 -- 8. Natural Wonders and National Cultures:



European Sojourns, Part 2 -- 9. 'A Big Old Country Car, Speeding around a Winding Road': Transatlantic Tourism in the 1920s.

Sommario/riassunto

A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.