The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

We wish to thank the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich for providing Weiss with uninterrupted time in which to work on this research. Versions of this paper were presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, as the Robert Gallman Lecture at the University of North Carolina, at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, in seminars at Seoul National University, Dongguk University, and Sogang University, and at the First Conference of the International Association of Tourism Economics. We also thank Ernest Berkhout, Lou Cain, Kyongwook Choi, Stan Engerman, Price Fishback, Aliza Fleischer, Drew Keeling, Michael McAleer, Ed Perkins, Joshua Rosenbloom and Vic Valcarcel for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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