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Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915 Catherine Cocks
Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915
Catherine Cocks
Explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity. Focusing on New York and San Francisco, this work describes what it was like to ride on Pullman cars, stay in the grand hotels, and take in the sights of the cities.
300 pages, 15 b/w photographs
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 19, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520227460 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 300 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 28 mm · 635 g |