The roadhouse comes to Britain : drinking, driving and dancing, 1925-1955 /

"This is the first book to examine the cultural phenomenon of the roadhouse in mid 20th-century Britain and its impact on British leisure. The term 'roadhouse' was used in varied ways in the 1930s, from small roadside tearooms to enormous establishments on the outskirts of major citie...

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Những tác giả chính: Gutzke, David W., 1949- (Tác giả), Law, Michael John (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1496564
Mục lục:
  • Gaudy Shacks and Palaces
  • Transatlantic Transgressions
  • Driving to the Roadhouse
  • Negotiating Class
  • Americanization and Modernity
  • The Roadhouse in the Public Imagination
  • Death of the Roadhouse?
  • Appendix: Catalogue of Interwar British Roadhouses.