"Catherine Cocks has provided a new and fascinating look at cities. Rather than merely places to live and work, cities take shape as places to visit. Deeply researched, "Doing the Town" engagingly reveals how cities--once seen as suspect and dangerous--became comfortable and entertaining vacation destinations. Most importantly, Cocks persuasively argues, the growth of urban tourism helped to erode Victorian culture and fashion a modern America."--Cindy S. Aron, author of "Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the ...
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"Catherine Cocks has provided a new and fascinating look at cities. Rather than merely places to live and work, cities take shape as places to visit. Deeply researched, "Doing the Town" engagingly reveals how cities--once seen as suspect and dangerous--became comfortable and entertaining vacation destinations. Most importantly, Cocks persuasively argues, the growth of urban tourism helped to erode Victorian culture and fashion a modern America."--Cindy S. Aron, author of "Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States" ""Doing the Town" is a major contribution to the history of urban recreational travel and sightseeing in the United States. It provides richly detailed accounts of the ways tourism shaped American cities in the second half of the 19th century. "--Dean MacCannell, author of "The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class" "Cocks' study of the rise of commericalized urban tourism throws light upon a long neglected chapter in the social history of travel; but more importantly, in the course of charting the emergence of a new style of 'spatial practice, ' Cocks has new and interesting tales to tell on the history of American cities, consumer cultures, nationalist ideologies, and ethnicities."--Judith Adler, author of "Travel as a Performed Art," "American Journal of Sociology"
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