| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

The Making of American Resorts: Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, and Lake George. By Theodore Corbett. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. xx, 285 pp. Cloth, $59.00, ISBN 0-8135-2841-0. Paper, $28.00, ISBN 0-8135-2842-9.)

In the past decade, the number of historical works that examine tourism and vacationing has skyrocketed. A growing number of these new studies explore a single resort or attraction, mining its history in search of cultural insight. Theodore Corbett's study of Saratoga Springs is one of this cluster of new works. (Although Ballston Spa and Lake George feature in the title of the book, they disappear early in the story and are included primarily as a means of highlighting the unusual stability and success of Saratoga Springs.) The Making of American Resorts is the result of years of local archival work, based on sources that have not been exploited in most places. Because the book is based on a series of discrete local studies, it can seem rambling and disconnected at times. Perhaps for that reason, too, although the study ranges from the resort's origins at the beginning of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, it offers little sense of change over time. . . .

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