Aron, Cindy S.
Working At Play : A History of Vacations in the United States
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Inventing Vacations
1. Recuperation and Recreation: The Pursuit of Health and Genteel Pleasures
2. "Summer hotels are everywhere": A Flood of Vacationers
3. "through the streets in bathing costumes": Resort Vacations, 1850-1900
4. "No late hours, no headache in the morning": Self-Improvement Vacations
5. "a jaunt... agreeable and instructive": The Vacationer as Tourist
6. "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": Camping Vacations
Part Two: Into the Twentieth Century
7. "Vacations do not appeal to them": Extending Vacations to the Working Class
8. Crossing Class and Racial Boundaries: Vacationing in the Early Twentieth Century
9. "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": Vacationing During the Depression
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Introduction
Part One: Inventing Vacations
1. Recuperation and Recreation: The Pursuit of Health and Genteel Pleasures
2. "Summer hotels are everywhere": A Flood of Vacationers
3. "through the streets in bathing costumes": Resort Vacations, 1850-1900
4. "No late hours, no headache in the morning": Self-Improvement Vacations
5. "a jaunt... agreeable and instructive": The Vacationer as Tourist
6. "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": Camping Vacations
Part Two: Into the Twentieth Century
7. "Vacations do not appeal to them": Extending Vacations to the Working Class
8. Crossing Class and Racial Boundaries: Vacationing in the Early Twentieth Century
9. "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": Vacationing During the Depression
Epilogue
Notes
Index
- Author(s)
- Aron, Cindy S.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780195363630
