{"product_id":"sacred-places-american-tourist-attractions-in-the-nineteenth-century-9781558491625","title":"Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally promoted by the educated and elite and by leading writers and painters, tourism has since become a democratic mass movement. This is a study of 19th-century tourism and its role in shaping American culture. The book gives an analysis of the contribution of certain tourist spots to America's cultural awareness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSears offers us not only an explanation of the popularity of certain tourist spots but also an enlightening discussion of the role that tourism played in helping Americans fashion a distinctive national culture in the six decades after 1820. - American Historical Review - \"\"Sears's study is unique in its focus on nineteenth-century tourism and its role in shaping American culture. This book is no mere description of tourist attractions but rather a sophisticated analysis of their contribution to America's cultural awareness.\"\" - History - \"\"Absorbing and scrupulously researched ... Sears's observations on a significant form of American leisure have the snap and sparkle of Winslow Homer's pictures of young parasol-twirling female divinities gracing the New Jersey shore.\"\" - Washington Post - \"\"Originally promoted by the educated elite and by leading writers and painters, tourism has since become a democratic mass movement. What makes Sacred Places important as well as interesting is that by tracing the history of tourist attractions to their origins. Sears supplies a certain perspective.\"\" - The Nation - \"\"Elegantly written essays about the world of the genteel tourist in the nineteenth century ... [Sacred Places] is laden with insights about what the public expects from its history, and would be especially valuable for those public historians who serve tourists today at scenic and historical sites.\"\" - Public Historian - \"\"A work of exceptional intelligence and deep research. It is essential reading for all students of landscape history.\"\" - Simon Schama, Columbia University - \"\"Sears's book is the authoritative study of American tourism at its nineteenth-century point of origin. Using sensitive readings of literature, visual imagery, and geography, this book offers a complex, convincing account of a phenomenon too often dismissed as just another example of 'commercialism.'\"\" - Karal Ann Marling, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041340358999,"sku":"9781558491625","price":31.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sacred-places-american-tourist-attractions-in-the-nineteenth-century-9781558491625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}