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Seaside holiday resorts in the United States and Britain: a review*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

Robert Lewis
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Urban History Yearbook , Volume 7 , May 1980 , pp. 44 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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Charles E. Funnell, By the Beautiful Sea: The rise and high times of that great American resort, Atlantic City (New York, 1975). xi + 199 pp. Plates. Illustrations. Bibliography. $12.95.

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