Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem
Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem

Author: Rupert L. Chapman III

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1351538861

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Jerusalem was a constant focus in the hearts and minds of all pilgrims and tourists travelling to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, but knowing exactly where they might get clean and decent accommodations on arrival was of the utmost importance. This volume is a study of the rise of commercial hotel keeping in Jerusalem, from the beginnings in the early 1840s, drawing extensively on travel accounts and archives, notably those of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2
Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2

Author: Michael Greenhalgh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-01-15

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 9004540873

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This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.