Part One. Inventing vacations -- Ch. 1. Recuperation and recreation: the pursuit of health and genteel pleasures -- Ch. 2. "Summer hotels are everywhere ... ": a flood of vacationers -- Ch. 3. "Through the streets in bathing costumes": resort vacations, 1850-1900 -- Ch. 4. "No late hours, no headache in the morning ... ": self-improvement vacations -- Ch. 5. "A jaunt ... agreeable and instructive": the vacationer as tourist -- Ch. 6. "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": camping vacations.
Part Two. Into the twentieth century -- Ch. 7. "Vacations do not appeal to them ... ": extending vacations to the working class -- Ch. 8. Crossing class and racial boundaries: vacationing in the early twentieth century -- Ch. 9. "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": vacationing during the depression.
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Vacations-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Vacations-- United States-- History-- 20th century.