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

• Autore: Morgan Cecilia <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (486 p.)
• Disciplina: 914.04
• Soggetto topico: Canadians - Travel - Europe - History; Canadians - Travel - Great Britain - History; Tourism - Europe - History; Tourism - Great Britain - History; Travelers - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain; Europe; Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Biographies.; Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A happy holiday
• ISBN: 1-4426-9241-3; 1-4426-8818-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781114503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II