Hotel dreams: luxury, technology, and urban ambition in America, 1829-1929

Molly W. Berger

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Frontmatter
Introduction (page 1)
1 The Emergence of the American First-Class Hotel, 1820s: "All at Hand, and All of the Best" (page 11)
2 The Tremont House, Boston, 1829: "A Style Entirely New" (page 29)
3 The Proliferation of Antebellum Hotels, 1830-1860: "Every Thing Is on a Gigantic Scale" (page 61)
4 The Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, 1860: "In Reference to the Building of a Monster Hotel" (page 83)
5 Production and Consumption in an American Palace, 1850-1875: "To Keep a Hotel" (page 111)
6 The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 1875: "The Greatest Caravansary in the World" (page 141)
7 The "New" Modern Hotel, 1880-1920: "It Is Part of the Hotel Business to Hide All These Things from View" (page 177)
8 The Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1927: "Virtually a Multiple of Twenty-Five Small Hotels" (page 217)
Conclusion (page 242)
Acknowledgments (page 259)
Notes (page 263)
Essay on Sources (page 297)
Index (page 307)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
TC	53.2 (Apr. 2012): 490-491	http://www.jstor.org/stable/41475520
JDH	25.1 (2012): 111-112	http://www.jstor.org/stable/41419663
BHR	86.1 (Spring 2012): 161-163	http://www.jstor.org/stable/23239473
JSocH	46.4 (Summer 2013): 1074-1075	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v046/46.4.longstreth.html
EnS	14.3 (Sep. 2013): 652-654	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/enterprise_and_society/v014/14.3.stradling.html

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Published: c2011

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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