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Histories, meanings and representations of the modern hotel
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- Book Synopsis
- Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the material forms and cultural iconographies of the hotel. This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on three areas of vibrant and timely scholarly enquiry: the uniqueness of the American hotel, the contested status of the colonial and postcolonial hotel, and the hotel's embroilment in violent conflict. It explores the hotel as an institution that incubates innovation, enables commercial relations on a variety of scales, and supplies an arena for negotiating relations of political, cultural, and economic power. The volume presents a number of case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that links the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity. It is aimed at tourism studies scholars, as well as history and critical and applied tourism studies students, at undergraduate and graduate levels.
- About The Author
- Kevin J. James is Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Canada, and founder of the Tourism History Working Group. His publications include Tourism, Land, and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2014) and Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel (Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2018).
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- ISBN
- 9781836460350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications, (10 March 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 168
- Weight
- 210 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 x 8.7 mm
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