Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Inventing Vacations 1: Recuperation and Recreation: The Pursuit of Health and Genteel Pleasures 2: "Summer hotels are everywhere": A Flood of 4: "No late hours, no headache in the morning": Self-Improvement Vacations 5: "a jaunt... agreeable and instructive": The Vacationer as Tourist 6: "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": Camping Vacations Part Two: Into the Twentieth Century 7: "Vacations do not appeal to them": Extending Vacations to the Working Class 8: Crossing Class and Racial Boundaries: Vacationing in the Early Twentieth Century 9: "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": Vacationing During the Depression Epilogue Notes Index

About the Author

Cindy S. Aron is the author of Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle Class Workers in Victorian America, and is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Reviews

The book is an original and ambitious undertaking, grounded in enterprising archival research in business records and private papers. It will be required reading in its field... John K. Walton, Cultural and Social History ... accessible survey of the history of holidaymaking in the United States before the Second World War. Cultural and Social History ... interesting and well-written ... It opens out a neglected subject, and one whose economic and cultural importance is only now becoming apparent to conventionally-minded historians. It should attract the critical attention of social and cultural historians on both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond. Cultural and Social History