'A happy holiday' : English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930 / Cecilia Morgan.
A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.
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| Other title: | English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930. |
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Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism
- 1. Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism
- 2. Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland
- 3. Landscape of History and Empire, Part 2: England
- 4. 'Paddy's Grief and Native Wit': Canadian Tourists and Ireland
- 5. 'The Hot Life of London is upon Us': Travel to the Imperial Capital
- 6. Street, the Regatta, and the Orphanage: The Public and Social Spaces of Tourism in Britain
- 7. 'This Sight-Seeing Is a Strenuous Business': European Sojourns, Part 1
- 8. Natural Wonders and National Cultures: European Sojourns, Part 2
- 9. 'A Big Old Country Car, Speeding around a Winding Road': Transatlantic Tourism in the 1920s.