The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara FallsA lively and wide-ranging work on the history of the North American honeymoon, and, of necessity, the tourist industry at Niagara Falls. Dubinsky charts the growth of Niagara Falls as a tourist destination from the 1850s to the 1960s and explains how it acquired its reputation as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Ultimately, the author asks: Of all the ways to promote a waterfall, why honeymoons? Winner of the 2000 Albert B. Corey prize from the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book in Canadian-American history. |
Contents
Introduction Practising Heterosexuality at Niagara Falls | 1 |
The Pleasure Is Exquisite but Violent The Imaginary Geography of the Nineteenth Century | |
Local Colour in the Contact Zone The Spectacle of Race | |
The Peoples Niagara at the Turn of the Century | |
Boom and Bust in the 1920s and 1930s | |
A Laboratory for the Study of Young Love Honeymoons and Travel to World War II | |
HonkyTonk City Niagara and the Postwar Travel Boom | |
Heterosexuality Goes Public The Postwar Honeymoon | |
Conclusion The Sublime Becomes Ridiculous | |
Notes | |
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