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Author : Charles Mason Dow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls written by Charles Mason Dow and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas A. Chambers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465672
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Memories of War written by Thomas A. Chambers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places. In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America's rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they desired experiences that evoked strong emotions and leant meaning to the bleached bones and decaying fortifications of a past age. Chambers traces this impulse through efforts to commemorate Braddock's Field and Ticonderoga, the cultivated landscapes masking the violent past of the Hudson River valley, the overgrown ramparts of Southern war sites, and the scenic vistas at War of 1812 battlefields along the Niagara River. Describing a progression from neglect to the Romantic embrace of the landscape and then to ritualized remembrance, Chambers brings his narrative up to the beginning of the Civil War, during and after which the memorialization of such sites became routine, assuming significant political and cultural power in the American imagination.
Author : Will B. Mackintosh
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479826170
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Selling the Sights written by Will B. Mackintosh and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
Author : New York (State). Legislature
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Legislative Document written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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Total Pages : 1622 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State). Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.F. Libbie & Co
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Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by C.F. Libbie & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buffalo Historical Society
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Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society written by Buffalo Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott and O'Shaughnessy
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Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Auction Catalogues written by Scott and O'Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buffalo Historical Society
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Total Pages : 772 pages
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Download or read book Publications written by Buffalo Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara
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Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara written by New York (State). Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Sterngass
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801876966
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book First Resorts written by Jon Sterngass and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] scrupulously researched and beautifully crafted account of how nineteenth-century Americans went in search of health, rest, and diversion.” —Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, coauthors of The Beach. The History of Paradise on Earth In First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island, Jon Sterngass follows three of the best-known northeastern American resorts across a century of change. Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island began, he finds, as similar pleasure destinations, each of them featuring “grand” hotels where visitors swarmed public spaces such as verandas, dining rooms, and parlors. As the century progressed, however, Saratoga remained much the same, while Newport turned to private (and lavish) “cottages” and Coney Island shifted its focus to amusements for the masses. Fifty-nine illustrations enliven Sterngass’s unique study of the commodification of pleasure that occurred as capitalist values flourished, travel grew more accessible, and leisure time became democratized. These three resorts, he argues, served as forerunners of twentieth-century pleasure cities such as Aspen, Las Vegas, and Orlando. “An engaging, creative book replete with evocative illustrations and witty quotes . . . a pleasant read.” —Thomas A. Chambers, New York Academy of History “Sterngass’s discussions about privacy, community, commercialization, consumption, leisure, and the desire to be conspicuous are important and new. With its well-chosen illustrations, this is a handsome book as well as an important one.” —Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University “Having mined every conceivable source about his three sites, Sterngass has presented a wealth of interesting material not only about the resort experience but also about the residents, politicians, and entrepreneurs who built them.” —Journal of American History
Author : Astor Library
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Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Astor Library
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Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation) written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
