Author: William Pembroke Fetridge
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: William Pembroke Fetridge
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Andrew Oliver
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617976326
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travelers themselves.

Author: Robert Charles Le Clair
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: E. Fay
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137087870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections.

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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1382

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Author: Monika Elbert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317198034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the hotel affords a new way of understanding the freedoms and restrictions felt by travelers from different social classes and nations. As an environment that forced travelers to reimagine themselves or their cultural backgrounds, the hotel could provide exhilarating moments of self-discovery or dangerous feelings of alienation. It could prove liberating to the tourist seeking an escape from prescribed gender roles or social class constructs. The book addresses changing notions of nationality, social class, and gender in a variety of expansive or oppressive hotel milieu: in the private space of the hotel room and in the public spaces (foyers, parlors, dining areas). Sections address topics including nationalism and imperialism; the mundane vs. the supernatural; comfort and capitalist excess; assignations, trysts, and memorable encounters in hotels; and women’s travels. The book also offers a brief history of inns and hotels of the time period, emphasizing how hotels play a large role in literary texts, where they frequently reflect order and disorder in a personal and/or national context. This collection will appeal to scholars in literature, travel writing, history, cultural studies, and transnational studies, and to those with interest in travel and tourism, hospitality, and domesticity.

Author: Charles Eyre Pascoe
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: Hugh Hollinghurst
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645165
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Liverpool’s railways have changed and developed over the last century.

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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