Great American Hoteliers
Pioneers of the Hotel Industry
During the thirty years prior to the Civil War, Americans built hotels larger and more ostentatious than any in the rest of the world. These hotels were inextricably intertwined with American culture and customs but were accessible to average citizens. As Jefferson Williamson wrote in The American Hotel ( Knopf 1930), hotels were perhaps the most distinctively American of all our institutions for they were nourished and brought to flower solely in American soil and borrowed practically nothing from abroad. Development of hotels was stimulated by the confluence of travel, tourism and transportation. In 1869, the transcontinental railroad eng…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4490-0753-9
- EAN: 9781449007539
- Produktnummer: 5199384
- Verlag: Authorhouse
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 388 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 595 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 595
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