Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Recuperation and Recreation: The Pursuit of Health and Genteel Pleasures; 2 "Summer hotels are everywhere . . .": A Flood of Vacationers; 3 "through the streets in bathing costumes": Resort Vacations, 1850-1900; 4 "No late hours, no headache in the morning . . .": Self-Improvement Vacations; 5 "a jaunt ... agreeable and instructive": The Vacationer as Tourist; 6 "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": Camping Vacations; Part Two: Into the Twentieth Century; 7 "Vacations do not appeal to them . . .": Extending Vacations to the Working Class
Summary
This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon
