Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(3):603-605; doi:10.1093/es/khp027
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Richard H. Gassan. The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790–1830
Richard H. Gassan. The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790–1830. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii + 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-55849-664-4, $80.00 (cloth); 978-1-55849-665-1, $29.95 (paper)
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Historian Richard H. Gassan has written a lovely little book concerning the earliest decades of American tourism, focusing on the Hudson Valley and the Fashionable Tour that connected New York City with the Catskills, Saratoga Springs, and Niagara Falls, among other places. Although parts of this story have been well told before, in this lively book Gassan convincingly argues that the American tourism industry emerged in the late 1810s, "decades earlier
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