| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias. Tourist Third Cabin: Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xxv, 294. $29.95.

Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias cover new ground in this book by making use of archival collections in France, Britain, and the United States to examine aspects of steamship travel between the wars. They focus on the upgrading of services that accompanied the postwar switch from impoverished migrants to middle-class tourists as the core market for transatlantic shipping lines, as changing U.S. immigration policies congealed the flow of migrants from eastern and southern Europe; the class-related tensions associated with the opening out of steamship travel to new social strata of more limited means than many prewar travelers; the organization of the voyage and the way of life of the crew; the distinctive experiences of female seafarers; advertising and image, with special reference to the identification of the great new "floating cities" with the competing countries whose flags they carried; and the symbolism attached to the choice of decor and the messages it sent about attitudes to modernity and national identity. A brief epilogue looks at the declining years of the transatlantic liners after their service in World War II, and the continuing growth of cruising as distinct from business and direct tourist travel as competition from the airlines intensified.

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