Hotel dreams : luxury, technology, and urban ambition in America, 1829-1929 /
From the time they emerged in American cities in the 1820s, commercial luxury hotels were far more than places where a traveler could eat and sleep-they were icons of style, opulence, and technological sophistication. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captu...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011
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Series: | Studies in industry and society.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |