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Author Brown, Dona.

Title Inventing New England : regional tourism in the nineteenth century / Dona Brown.

Publication Info. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1995]
©1995

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  917.4 BROWN    Check Shelf
Description ix, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
Contents 1. Tours, Grand and Fashionable: The Origins of Tourist Industries in The United States, 1815-1830 -- 2. The Uses of Scenery: Scenic Touring In the White Mountains, 1830-1860 -- 3. Cottage Heaven: Creating Consuers on Martha's Vineyard, 1860-1875 -- 4. "Manufactured for the Trade" : Nostalgia on Nantucket, 1870-1890 -- 5. That Dream of Home: Northern New England and the Farm Vacation Industry, 1890-1900 -- 6. The Problem of the Summer: Race, Class, and the Colonial Vacation in Southern Maine, 1890-1910 -- Epilogue: Tourism in the Twentieth Century.
Subject Tourism -- New England -- History.
Indexed Term Tourism History
United States
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1900
Other Form: Online version: Brown, Dona. Inventing New England. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1995 (OCoLC)608084497
ISBN 1560984732 (acid-free paper)
9781560984733 (acid-free paper)
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