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Going Places: The Historical Archaeology of Travel and Tourism

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This paper briefly introduces the topics of tourism, consumption, and heritage management considered in this special issue. Contributors to the special issue focus on tourism within nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and its connections to industrial capitalism and the creation of a culture of consumption. These issues are addressed in case studies of tourist sites, including archaeological sites.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the participants in the original SHA session that led to this special issue, as well as those who joined the project later on. We are especially grateful to those who hung in there until the bitter end of publication. Along the way, Christopher Matthews, LouAnn Wurst, and Stacy Camp provided much needed discussion and insight that enabled us to clarify the focus of this volume.

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  1. Public Archaeology Facility, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 13901–6000, USA

    Maria O’Donovan & Lynda Carroll

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Correspondence to Maria O’Donovan.

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O’Donovan, M., Carroll, L. Going Places: The Historical Archaeology of Travel and Tourism. Int J Histor Archaeol 15, 191–193 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-011-0135-0

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