Company of strangers : Patea and Wanganui hotels, 1866-1899 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University

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dc.contributor.authorWright, Jason Leonard
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-30T00:03:34Z
dc.date.available2016-06-30T00:03:34Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionPage 91 missingen_US
dc.description.abstractBetween 1866 and 1899 the Patea and Wanganui hotel was a changing institution that dominated social, economic and political spheres. At its heart, the hotel was an arena for social debate and social interaction, usually among men. It has been contended that the hotel is a 'legal creation' in that laws ensured hotels provided certain services during specified hours, and punished any transgressors (Saunders, 1981, p.91). Defined as public houses, their legal definition barely changed over the period under review, but the services that a hotel offered were regularly amended to take account of social pressures. While this notion of the hotel as legal creation may have informed much of the political debate and regulatory framework of the late nineteenth century, the hotel was a symbol of freedom from hard work, family constraints, boredom, long hours of travel, the physical difficulties of frontier life and political and social elites pushing for moral and social change. The hotel was also the accepted place to drink, and where liquor debates occurred, they usually centred on the hotel. Historians suggest that these elements were common in hotels throughout colonial New Zealand, Australia and USA, with links back to sixteenth century England and to previous Roman times. The nineteenth century hotel was also a gentleman's club for the working class. There, men could relax in warmth and relative comfort to share stories and news in the company of friends and strangers. During the nineteenth century views of the hotel underwent several changes at the hands of politicians and social commentators. However, it continued to serve the same basic functions, as provider of accommodation, entertainment and environment for social and political interaction.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/8317
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectHotelsen_US
dc.subjectSocial aspectsen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subject19th centuryen_US
dc.subjectWanganuien_US
dc.subjectPateaen_US
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_US
dc.titleCompany of strangers : Patea and Wanganui hotels, 1866-1899 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey Universityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorWright, Jason Leonarden_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
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