Warren James Belasco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren James Belasco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren James |
| FAMILY NAME | Belasco |
| SIGNATURE | BELASCO W J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Roadside Dreams, Fast Food Nightmares
If John Jakle, Keith Sculle, and Eric Schlosser ever got together in the same room, I would love to be a fly on the wall. That might indeed be the only safe place to perch, considering their fundamentally different approaches to the same subject. To be sure, Jakle and Sculle, authors of Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and Schlosser, whose more recently published Fast Food Na…
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
Journal Article Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel 1910–1945. By Warren James Belasco. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979. ix + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical guide, and index. $14.95.) Get access James J. Flink James J. Flink University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 2, September 1980, Pages 432–433, https://doi.org/10…
Americans on the Road: From Auto-Camp to Motel, 1911-1945
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
Journal Article Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel 1910–1945. By Warren James Belasco. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979. ix + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical guide, and index. $14.95.) Get access James J. Flink James J. Flink University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 2, September 1980, Pages 432–433, https://doi.org/10…
Americans on the Road: From Auto-Camp to Motel, 1911-1945
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
Roadside Dreams, Fast Food Nightmares
If John Jakle, Keith Sculle, and Eric Schlosser ever got together in the same room, I would love to be a fly on the wall. That might indeed be the only safe place to perch, considering their fundamentally different approaches to the same subject. To be sure, Jakle and Sculle, authors of Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and Schlosser, whose more recently published Fast Food Na…
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
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