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Hardcover Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture Book

ISBN: 1479889377

ISBN13: 9781479889372

Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture

(Part of the Early American Places Series)

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...

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