Tourist Third Cabin  -  Lorraine Coons

Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years

KORTE INHOUD

Tourist Third Cabin offers a window into a bygone era, where the technological marvels and floating palaces of modern steamships like the Queen Mary, the France, and the Titanic transported a new breed of tourist between Europe and North America. The interwar period saw the birth of mass transatlantic tourism, and women, students, and ordinary people took to the seas in search of education, fun, and freedom. It was also a period of tumultuous social and cultural change. Historians Lorraine Coons and Alexand...
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2003 Uitgever: Palgrave Macmillan 304 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0312214294 ISBN-13: 9780312214296