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This text explains why so many Americans have visited France and tells what they did when they got there. It is an examination of the transformation of American attitudes toward French food, sex and culture; as well as an exploration of changing notions of class, gender, race and nationality.It begins in 1786 when Thomas Jefferson instructed young upper-class American men to travel overseas for self-improvement rather than debauchery. Many men crossed the Atlantic to develop "taste" and refinement, however, the introduction of the transatlantic steamship in the mid-19th century opened France to people further down the class ladder. The text discusses how as the upper class distanced themselves from the lower class travellers, tourism in search of culture gave way to the tourism of "conspicuous leisure", sex and sensuality. In the 1920s, Prohibition in America and a new middle class helped make drunken sprees in Paris more enticing than trudging throught the Louvre, this text examines also the French anti-Americanism that failed to jolt the American ideal, France remaining Americans' favourite destination.

Table of Contents:
Preface Pt. 1: In Search of Taste and Distinction, 1786-1848 1: Jefferson versus Adams 2: Getting There Was Not Half the Fun 3: A Man's World 4: Eat, Drink, but Be Wary 5: "The Athens of Modern Europe" 6: Pleasures of the Flesh Pt. 2: Paris and Tourism Transformed, 1848-1870 7: Paris Transformed 8: Keeping Away from the Joneses 9: The Feminization of American Tourism Pt. 3: Class, Gender, and the Rise of Leisure Tourism, 1870-1914 10: "The Golden Age of Travel" 11: Prisoners of Leisure: Upper-Class Tourism 12: How "The Other Half" Toured 13: Class, Gender, and the Rise of Antitourism 14: Machismo, Morality, and Millionaires Pt. 4: The Invasion of the Lower Orders, 1917-1930 15: Doughboys and Dollars 16: "How're You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?" 17: A Farewell to "Culture Vultures" 18: Unhappy Hosts, Unwelcome Visitors 19: Epilogue Notes Index

About the Author :
Harvey Levenstein is professor emeritus of history at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has published a number of books on American history, including Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet and Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226473765
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 740 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0226473767
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age
  • Width: 160 mm


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