Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel

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English

Channel View Publications
10 March 2026

History; Colonialism & imperialism; Tourism industry; Hospitality industry

Series: Tourism and Cultural Change

Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the material forms and cultural iconographies of the hotel.

This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on three areas of vibrant and timely scholarly enquiry: the uniqueness of the American hotel, the contested status of the colonial and postcolonial hotel, and the hotel’s embroilment in violent conflict. It explores the hotel as an institution that incubates innovation, enables commercial relations on a variety of scales, and supplies an arena for negotiating relations of political, cultural, and economic power.

The volume presents a number of case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that links the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity. It is aimed at tourism studies scholars, as well as history and critical and applied tourism studies students, at undergraduate and graduate levels.

By: Kevin J. James
Imprint: Channel View Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9781836460350
ISBN 10: 183646035X
Series: Tourism and Cultural Change
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 10 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Hotel History: Interpretations and Approaches Chapter 3. The American Hotel Chapter 4. The Colonial Hotel Chapter 5. The Wartime Hotel Chapter 6. Conclusion References Index

Kevin J. James is a Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the Deputy Editor and Reviews Editor for the Journal of Tourism History and co-editor of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of the History of Tourism.

Reviews for Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel

Simply a must for anyone interested in hotels, Kevin James’s engaging historiography of scholarship on the topic is both exemplary in form and extremely valuable for its comprehensiveness. As a result, this book stands as an important and delightful contribution to the unique interdisciplinary dialogue that hotels continue to generate. * Robert A. Davidson, University of Toronto, Canada * This informative and thought-provoking book is a reminder of the important place occupied by hotels in the history of tourism and how they are a theatre for and window onto wider economic, sociocultural and political processes. The author writes in an accessible and engaging style, providing valuable insights and fascinating stories. The volume should stimulate much-needed further enquiry into the meanings and roles of hotels, past and present. * Joan C. Henderson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *