Manifest Destinations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manifest Destinations write by J. Philip Gruen. This book was released on 2014-09-02. Manifest Destinations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Manifest Destinations
Manifest Destinations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manifest Destinations write by Jason Philip Gruen. This book was released on 2004. Manifest Destinations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Manifest Destinations
Manifest Destinations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manifest Destinations write by J. Philip Gruen. This book was released on 2014. Manifest Destinations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
“Off with the Crack of a Whip!”
“Off with the Crack of a Whip!” - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook “Off with the Crack of a Whip!” write by Lee H. Whittlesey. This book was released on 2024-03-26. “Off with the Crack of a Whip!” available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stagecoaches carried visitors to and through Yellowstone National Park for thirty-eight years, from 1878 to 1916, and helped establish Yellowstone as a world-famous travel destination. This Volume One of a two-volume set by preeminent Yellowstone historian Lee Whittlesey is an engaging account of stagecoaching’s first years in the park. In lively, often humorous prose, Whittlesey describes the evolution of stagecoach travel in Yellowstone, the colorful men—and women—who ran the stagecoach companies, and the types of stagecoaches that carried tourists in the park, including the famed “Tally-ho” design. Along the way, Whittlesey profiles the stagecoach drivers who were “rough and profane but men of undoubted nerve,” and he shares stories from passengers who were appalled by their drivers, the “mind-shattering and bone-rattling” roads, the armed hold-ups, and the relentless dust, yet who were entranced by the wonders of this new Wonderland. "A new book by Yellowstone’s premier historian is always cause for celebration. Lee Whittlesey’s “Off with the Crack of a Whip!” is both a lively, colorful paean to the park’s legendary stagecoach days and an astonishing achievement of research on an encyclopedic scale. An amazing book.” — Paul Schullery, author of Searching for Yellowstone and The Bear Doesn’t Know “This book is an excellent source for anyone doing research on Yellowstone history, because stagecoach tourism, as Lee Whittlesey shows, was intertwined with almost every aspect of Yellowstone’s development. Thoroughly well-documented, “Off with the Crack of a Whip!” is a fascinating ride into Yellowstone’s stagecoaching past.” — Dr. Judith Meyer, Professor Emeritus, Missouri State University-Springfield (retired), and author of The Spirit of Yellowstone
Securing Paradise
Securing Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Securing Paradise write by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez. This book was released on 2013-07-11. Securing Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawai`i and the Philippines, U.S. military modes of mobility, control, and surveillance enable scenic tourist byways. Past and present U.S. military posts, such as the Clark and Subic Bases and the Pearl Harbor complex, have been reincarnated as destinations for tourists interested in World War II. The history of the U.S. military is foundational to tourist itineraries and imaginations in such sites. At the same time, U.S. military dominance is reinforced by the logics and practices of mobility and consumption underlying modern tourism. Working in tandem, militarism and tourism produce gendered structures of feeling and formations of knowledge. These become routinized into everyday life in Hawai`i and the Philippines, inculcating U.S. imperialism in the Pacific.
