Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel

Description:

This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on areas of timely scholarly enquiry. It presents case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that explores the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity.

Brief description:

Kevin J. James is Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Canada, and founder of the Tourism History Working Group. His publications include Tourism, Land, and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2014) and Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel (Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2018).

Review Quotes:

Simply a must for anyone interested in hotels, Kevin James's engaging historiography of scholarship on the topic is both exemplary in form and extremely valuable for its comprehensiveness. As a result, this book stands as an important and delightful contribution to the unique interdisciplinary dialogue that hotels continue to generate.