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Hotels, motels and condominiums : design, planning and maintenance
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ISBN: 085139292X 0843621095 Year: 1976 Publisher: London : Boston : Architectural Press ; Cahners Books International,

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Home away from home : motels in America
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ISBN: 0821221620 Year: 1995 Publisher: Boston (Mass.) : Bulfinch press,

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The motel in America
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ISBN: 0801853834 Year: 1996 Publisher: Baltimore ; London Johns Hopkins University Press

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In the second volume of the acclaimed "Gas, Food, Lodging" trilogy, authors John Jakle, Keith Sculle, and Jefferson Rogers take an informative, entertaining, and comprehensive look at the history of the motel. From the introduction of roadside tent camps and motor cabins in the 1910s to the wonderfully kitschy motels of the 1950s that line older roads and today's comfortable but anonymous chains that lure drivers off the interstate, Americans and their cars have found places to stay on their travels. Motels were more than just places to sleep, however. They were the places where many Americans saw their first color television, used their first coffee maker, and walked on their first shag carpet. Illustrated with more than 230 photographs, postcards, maps, and drawings, 'The Motel in America' details the development of the motel as a commercial enterprise, its imaginative architectural expressions, and its evolution within the place-product-packaging concept along America's highways. As an integral part of America's landscape and culture, the motel finally receives the in-depth attention it deserves.


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L'hôtellerie en Ardenne-Meuse
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Year: 1980 Publisher: Bruxelles : CRISP,

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Lodging hospitality -Cleveland-
ISSN: 01480766 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York, N.Y.

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Americans on the road : from autocamp to motel, 1910 - 1945.
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ISBN: 0262021234 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press


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Hotel & motel management
ISSN: 00186082 Publisher: Duluth, Minn.

Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world: lodging, trade, and travel in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0521819180 051116209X 0511162901 1107145171 0511165269 0511165633 0511312644 0511164505 1280437510 0511496265 0511163703 9786610437511 0521109760 9780521109765 9780511496264 9780521819183 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Greek pandocheion, Arabic funduq, and Latin fundicum (fondaco) were ubiquitous in the Mediterranean sphere for nearly two millennia. These institutions were not only hostelries for traders and travelers, but also taverns, markets, warehouses, and sites for commercial taxation and regulation. In this highly original study, Professor Constable traces the complex evolution of this family of institutions from the pandocheion in Late Antiquity, to the appearance of the funduq throughout the Muslim Mediterranean following the rise of Islam. By the twelfth century, with the arrival of European merchants in Islamic markets, the funduq evolved into the fondaco. These merchant colonies facilitated trade and travel between Muslim and Christian regions. Before long, fondacos also appeared in southern European cities. This study of the diffusion of this institutional family demonstrates common economic interests and cross-cultural communications across the medieval Mediterranean world, and provides a striking contribution to our understanding of this region.

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