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Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
Levander, Caroline Field, Guterl, Matthew Pratt
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Description for Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 467.
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. More than simply structures made of steel, concrete, and glass, hotels are social and political institutions that we invest with overlapping and contradictory meaning. These alluring places uniquely capture the realities of our world, where the ... Read more
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. More than simply structures made of steel, concrete, and glass, hotels are social and political institutions that we invest with overlapping and contradictory meaning. These alluring places uniquely capture the realities of our world, where the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469621128
SKU
V9781469621128
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Ref
99-1
About Levander, Caroline Field, Guterl, Matthew Pratt
Caroline F. Levander is the Carlson Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Rice University, USA. Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University, USA.
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