Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (Cultureamerica) (Culture America (Hardcover))
Susan Sessions Rugh
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Paperback. An entertaining cultural history of the American family vacation during the height of its popularity from 1945 to 1973. Reveals the ways in which the ritual of the family road trip, for most middle-class Americans became a way of defining what it meant to be (and become) American. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
This in-depth look at post–World War II family travel recounts how postwar prosperity and mass consumption—abetted by paid vacation leave, car ownership, and the new interstate highway system—forged the ritual of the family road trip and how that ritual became entwined with what it meant to be an American.
This in-depth look at post–World War II family travel recounts how postwar prosperity and mass consumption—abetted by paid vacation leave, car ownership, and the new interstate highway system—forged the ritual of the family road trip and how that ritual became entwined with what it meant to be an American.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
CultureAmerica
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700617593
SKU
V9780700617593
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