Cultural and Social Histories of the Grand Hotel
Locally Grounded, Globally Networked
Cultural and Social Histories of the Grand Hotel
Locally Grounded, Globally Networked
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This collection offers an innovative, comparative and global reinterpretation of the origins and development of a modern institution; The Grand Hotel. Bringing together examples from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, each chapter develops a historical case study between c.1875 to 1950 to explore how each hotel shaped, and was shaped by, its specific setting, and how it related to a wider, global hotel culture.
In exploring what has long been seen as a landmark institution of urban, capitalist modernity, Cultural Histories of the Grand Hotel critically questions long-held assumptions about its chronology of development, as well as its establishment and diffusion. From a variety of historical perspectives, scholars approach its social and cultural functions, as well as its built form, to reveal how the hotel was both locally embedded and globally networked. 'Grand hotel culture' was not a singular phenomenon; nor was it transmitted or transfused in one direction. This collection of essays argues against some widely held beliefs around the study of the 'grand hotel' and its transnational culture of luxury, especially in relation to colonialism, in favour of a more nuanced understanding of its diverse 'cultures' and chronologies of evolution.
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Table of Contents
Introduction, Kevin J. James with Florian Müller
Part 1: Hotels in Western and Central Europe
1. The Savoy Hotel 1889-1914: Modernity and Magic, Emma Anderson
2. Between Text and Cuisine: The Ritz, Proust and Escoffier, Nicola Angeli
3. The Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concords: A Belvedere Overlooking the World, Joanne Vajda
4. The Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin, Between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, Adam Bisno
5. Grand Hôtel du Vésuve in Naples, Annunziata Berrino
6. The Birth of the Grand Hotel in Spain during the First Third of the Twentieth Century, Carlos Larrinaga
7. The Hôtel Beau Rivage in Nice, Stephen L. Harp
8. The Triad of Desire: Lake, Mountain and Peace: The Beau-Rivage Palace, Lausanne from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries, Laurent Tissot
9. The Rescue of Biarritz's Hôtel du Palais after World War II: An Ambitious Local Policy Aimed at Restoring the Hotel's International Competitiveness, Eugénie Galasso
Part 2: Hotels in the East and South
10. The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, Orhan Yabanci
11. The Construction of Grand Hotels in Upper Egypt (1877-1907): Between Strategy and Opportunity, Sylvie Weens
12. “If we are to keep up our prestige:” The Kadoorie Brothers and the Golden Age of the Peninsula Hotel, 1922-1972, Evan Ward
13. Envisioning a Modern Grand Hotel in Republican China: Capital Hotel, Nanjing, 1934-35, Yinrui Xie
14. The Trinidad Hilton: A Decolonial Grand Hotel? Erica Morawski
15. The Hotel Guaraní: Photographing Peace and Progress, Bridget María Chesterton
Part 3: Hotels Recontextualized and Reconsidered
16. The Liminal Space of the Ledra Palace Hotel and the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone Heraclidou
17. A 'Floating Grand Hotel': The RMS Aquitania and the Architecture of Luxury at Sea, Michalis Foustanos
18. From the Grand Hotel to the People's Hotel: Reimagining Charleston's Tourism Industry and its Future, Blake C. Scott and Lisa Covert
Product details
| Published | Jan 21 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350532076 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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