Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929

(Part of the Studies in Industry and Society Series)

by Molly W. Berger

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421419920

ISBN13:9781421419923

Release Date:June 2016

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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