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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction: Holidays, Happiness, and Transatlantic Tourism
- 1. Porters, Guides, and the Middle-Class Tourist: The Practices of Transatlantic Tourism
- 2. The Landscape of History and Empire, Part 1: Scotland
- 3. The 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. The 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
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index