Part One. Inventing vacations
Ch. 1. Recuperation and recreation: the pursuit of health and genteel pleasures
Ch. 2. "Summer hotels are everywhere...": a flood of vacationers
Ch. 3. "Through the streets in bathing costumes": resort vacations, 1850-1900
Ch. 4. "No late hours, no headache in the morning...": self-improvement vacations
Ch. 5. "A jaunt...agreeable and instructive": the vacationer as tourist
Ch. 6. "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": camping vacations
Part Two. Into the twentieth century
Ch. 7. "Vacations do not appeal to them...": extending vacations to the working class
Ch. 8. Crossing class and racial boundaries: vacationing in the early twentieth century
Ch. 9. "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": vacationing during the depression
