Manifest destinations
Subtitle: cities and tourists in the nineteenth-century American West
By: J. Philip Gruen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780806144887
Subjects: Cities and towns; Travel writing; Tourism; Description and travel; History
Description: "In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Into the unknown; title: Attraction: modernity and the metropolis; title: Promotion: escape to the picturesque; title: Confusion: wonder, turmoil, awe, and hell; title: Civilization: architectural art, pretense, and process; title: Cosmopolitanism: editing and revising culture.