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Author:   Philip Scranton ,  Janet F. Davidson
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9780812239683

ISBN 10:   0812239687
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface -Philip Scranton PART I: COMMODIFYING PLACE Chapter 1: The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook & Son and the Origins of the International Tourism Industry In Egypt -Waleed Hazbun Chapter 2: The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and the Development of Saharan Tourism in North Africa -Kenneth J. Perkins Chapter 3: Food palaces built of sausages [and] great ships of lamb chops : The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consuming Spectacle -Philip Whalen PART 2: ENGAGING RELIGION Chapter 4: Consuming Simple Gifts: Shakers, Visitors, Goods -Brian Bixby Chapter 5: I Would Much Rather See a Sermon than Hear One : Experiencing Faith at Silver Dollar City -Aaron K. Ketchell Chapter 6: Troubles Tourism : Debating History and Voyeurism in Belfast, Northern Ireland -Molly Hurley Depret PART 3: MARKETING COMMUNISM Chapter 7: There's No Place Like Home : Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism -Anne Gorsuch Chapter 8: Dangerous Liaisons: Soviet-Block Tourists and the Temptations of the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s and 1970s -Patrick Hyder Patterson Chapter 9: A Means of Last Resort: The European Transformation of the Cuban Hotel Industry and the American Response, 1987-2004 -Evan R. Ward Afterword -Janet F. Davidson Contributors Acknowledgments Index

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Philip Scranton is Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden, and Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. His books include Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies and Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. Janet Davidson is Historian at the Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina. She is coauthor of On the Move: Transportation and the American Story.

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