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Book Review

Canada and the United States



Catherine Cocks. Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 287. $37.50.

Catherine Cocks traces the development of urban tourism from the early nineteenth century, when she claims it was "unthinkable," to the large-scale and profitable leisure industry of the early twentieth century. Cocks sets a large agenda, attempting to study tourism not only across an entire century but also in the geographically and culturally diverse cities of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. This wide-ranging book is filled with solid analysis, flashes of insight, and illuminating anecdotes, but ultimately it fails to demonstrate that urban tourists "embodied a new sense of selfhood and enacted a new understanding of the sources and character of legitimate social bonds" (p. 1). . . .


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