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Author Haley, Andrew P.

Title Turning the tables : restaurants and the rise of the American middle class, 1880-1920 / Andrew P. Haley.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-351) and index.
Contents The tang and feel of the American experience: class, culture, and consumption -- Terrapin a la Maryland: the era of the aristocratic restaurant -- Playing at make believe: the failure of imitation -- Catering to the great middle stripe: beefsteaks and American restaurants -- The restauration: colonizing the ethnic restaurant -- The simplified menu: the case against gastronomic ostentation -- Satisfying their hunger: middle-class women and respectability -- The tipping evil: the limits of middle-class influence -- Ending linguistic disquises: the decline of French cuisine -- Indifferent gullets: the middle class and the cosmopolitan restaurant.
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Subject Restaurants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Restaurants.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Middle class.
Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Consumption (Economics)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Haley, Andrew P. Turning the tables. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834749 (DLC) 2010043602 (OCoLC)668197666
ISBN 9780807877920 (electronic book)
0807877921 (electronic book)
9781469603148 (electronic book)
1469603144 (electronic book)
9780807834749
0807834742