[PDF.57dr] Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929 (Studies in Industry and Society)

Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929 (Studies in Industry and Society)

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 | #2855174 in Books |  2011-03-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.04 x6.00l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Hotel History|By david l. poremba|Most people, at one point in their lives, have spent the night in rented lodgings, be it hotel, motel or cabin. Those who have been fortunate to have spent time in the larger, older hotels (almost always found in larger cities), will remember the size, style, glamour and opulence of the place.
Molly Berger takes us back to the beginnings o| ||"A rigorously researched and elegantly written study of the role of the hotel in shaping and embodying ideals of progress, luxury, and technology in a consumer capitalist society. Berger's monograph is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarly literatur

Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology

Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel’s material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public’s imagination as it came to represent the complex―and often contentious―relationship among luxury, economi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929 (Studies in Industry and Society)   |  Molly W. Berger. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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