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Author | : Karen Dubinsky |
Publisher | : Between The Lines |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1896357237 |
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A lively and wide-ranging work on the history of the North American honeymoon, and, of necessity, the tourist industry at Niagara Falls. Dubinsky charts the growth of Niagara Falls as a tourist destination from the 1850s to the 1960s and explains how it acquired its reputation as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Ultimately, the author asks: Of all the ways to promote a waterfall, why honeymoons? Winner of the 2000 Albert B. Corey prize from the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book in Canadian-American history.
Author | : Karen Dubinsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Honeymoons |
ISBN | : |
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When Oscar Wilde visited Niagara Falls in 1882, he declared that the Falls must be the "earliest if not the keenest disappointment in American married life." Wilde was neither the first nor the last to notice the peculiar relationship between heterosexuality, the honeymoon, and Niagara Falls. The Second Greatest Disappointment charts the growth of Niagara as a tourist destination from the 1850s to the present, and shows how it acquired its reputation as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Tourist industry records, as well as interviews with people employed Niagara's hotels and attractions, provide an insider's perspective on the marketing of this cultural landmark. Karen Dubinsky also traces the history of the honeymoon, placing in context of changes in the public culture of heterosexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. So when Cary Grant declared to Grace Kelly in the 1955 film To Catch a Thief, "What you need is ten minutes with a good man at Niagara Falls," everyone knew he was not referring to sight-seeing. The Second Greatest Disappointment uses travelers' drawings, advertisements, and guidebook photographs to tell an engaging story about an old North American landmark.
Author | : Jane Adams |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004-06-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 074323281X |
Download When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A book that gives parents permission to let go of their adult children's problems and reclaim their lives.
Author | : Wendy Roy |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0773572678 |
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Roy considers the connections Jameson makes between feminism and anti-racism in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), Hubbard's insights in A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908) into her relationship with First Nations men who had both more and less power than she, and Laurence's awareness of colonial and patriarchical oppression in her African memoir The Prophet's Camel Bell (1963). Roy also examines archival and First Nations accounts of these women's travels, and the sketches, photos, and maps that accompany their writing, to examine contradictions in and question the implied objectivity of travel narratives. She concludes by looking at the myth of getting there first and the ways in which new technologies of representation, including cameras, allow travellers and writers to claim new travel firsts.
Author | : Don Lago |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874175992 |
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"The Powell Expedition is a thought-provoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians." —The Wall Street Journal John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell’s crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them. Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell’s famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.
Author | : Christopher P. Cooper |
Publisher | : Channel View Publications |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781873150443 |
Download Classic Reviews in Tourism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing together some of the leading authors in tourism, this text provides state-of-the-art reviews of research in fields of tourism. The text also revisits classic reviews which first appeared in Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management series, over a decade before the publication of this title. Topics covered include gender, alternative tourism, urban tourism, heritage tourism and environmental auditing.
Author | : Alice Mah |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442613572 |
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Fábricas abandonadas, astilleros, refinerías y naves industriales en desuso forman parte del paisaje de muchas de nuestras ciudades. A pesar del deterioro, estas estructuras permanecen unidas firmemente al tejido urbano que las rodea. En este libro, Alice Mah explora el proceso del declive urbano y posindustrial de tres ciudades distintas: Niagara Fallls, Canada/USA; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia.
Author | : Jennifer Anne Stephen |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2007-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144269128X |
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During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women to return to the household once the war was over. Pick One Intelligent Girl reveals the elaborate psychological, economic, and managerial techniques that were used to recruit and train women for wartime military and civilian jobs, and then, at war's end, to move women out of the labour force altogether. Negotiating the fluid boundaries of state, community, industry, and household, and drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Jennifer A. Stephen illustrates how women's relationships to home, work, and nation were profoundly altered during this period. She demonstrates how federal officials enlisted the help of a new generation of 'experts' to entrench a two-tiered training and employment system that would become an enduring feature of the Canadian state. This engaging study not only adds to the debates about the gendered origins of Canada's welfare state, it also makes an important contribution to Canadian social history, labour and gender studies, sociology, and political science.
Author | : Sharon Wall |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774858842 |
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Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies � antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity � shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North America. A valuable resource for those interested in the connections between the history of childhood, the natural environment, and recreation, The Nature of Nurture will also appeal to anyone who has been packed off to camp and wants to explore why.
Author | : Cecilia Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487510772 |
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Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas. Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been important, Cecilia Morgan describes the growth of historical pageantry, popular history, textbooks, historical societies, museums, and monuments through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showing how Canadians have clashed over conflicting interpretations of history and how they have come together to create shared histories, she demonstrates the importance of history in shaping Canadian identity. Though public history in both French and English Canada was written predominantly by white, middle-class men, Morgan also discusses the activism and agency of women, immigrants, and Indigenous peoples. The book concludes with a brief examination of present-day debates over Canada’s history and Canadians’ continuing interest in their pasts.