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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Observations on the Mineral Waters in the South Western Part of Virginia
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Author: Observations on the Mineral Waters in the South Western Part of Virginia
Author: Physician of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Baths
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Transactions of the Albany Institute
Author: Albany InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Observations on the Mineral Waters in the South Western Part of Virginia
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396606649
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Excerpt from Observations on the Mineral Waters in the South Western Part of Virginia: In a Series of Letters At 11 o'clock we left Alexandria for the Virginia Springs, and. Reached Warrenton distant 44 miles at o'clock. The road between these two places is a turnpike made with about as much skill, as is common in the interior of the United States. It goes in a line of almost unvarying straightness, over a series of hills, after the manner of the old Roman military way, and with little or no reference or deference to the elevation of the ground by running around the ends of high hills and along vallies. This day's ride is fatiguing from the monotony and exhausted state of the coun try, until it reaches within eight or ten miles of Warrenton. A good rural dinner to one whose appetite is sharpened by travelling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Selling the Sights
Author: Will B. MackintoshPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479889377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
Souvenirs of the Old South
Author: Rebecca C. McIntyrePublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081305978X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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"Written in a clear, accessible, and lively style, Souvenirs of the Old South will be the foundational work for subsequent scholars and readers interested in tourism in the New South."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory "This study of southern images offers readers a glimpse of how history, culture, race, and class came together in the tourist imagination. If the South emerged from the Civil War a distinctive place, Rebecca McIntyre would remind us that’s because distinctiveness sells."--Richard Starnes, author of Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans. Rebecca McIntyre focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South’s modern identity, and she reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South "southern" as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. She also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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