| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-453) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Canadians -- Travel -- Europe -- History.
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Canadians -- Travel -- Great Britain -- History.
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Tourism -- Europe -- History.
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Tourism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Travelers -- Canada -- Biography.
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Canadians, English-speaking -- Travel -- Great Britain -- History.
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Canadians, English-speaking -- Travel -- Europe -- History.
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TRAVEL -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- General.
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Canadians -- Travel.
(OCoLC)fst00845205
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Tourism. (OCoLC)fst01153142
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Travelers. (OCoLC)fst01155691
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Morgan, Cecilia Louise, 1958- Happy holiday'. Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008300411 |
| ISBN |
9781442688186 (electronic bk.) |
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1442688181 (electronic bk.) |
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