:“A Happy Holiday”: English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870–1930
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the past decade, a wide range of histories has been published that has moved the study of the British world in interesting new directions. A compelling theme in this recent literature relates to the formation and development of social identities. Through studies that re-evaluate the meanings of imperialism in Britain, through studies that offer new ways of looking at the internal dynamics of “white settler societies,” and through studies that contain revisionist assessments of the social/cultural outcomes of people's movements between colonies and metropole, the field is currently undergoing a process of revitalization and renewal. Cecilia Morgan's book offers readers a thoughtful contribution to this field of study. As Morgan explains in her introduction, this work is concerned with tourists' “discourses and practices” rather than with the workings of the transatlantic tourist industry itself. At the heart of the book is an assessment of the place of transatlantic holidays in the development of middle-class English Canadians' senses of personal and national identity. Morgan argues that the experiences gained overseas in Britain and in Europe, together with the process of chronicling those experiences, played an important role in the development of Anglo-Canadians' understandings of their own place within an imperial, and global, context. However, as Morgan notes, her aim is to make meaning of the in-transit articulations of those holiday experiences rather than to assess in any sustained way how personal experiences and their dissemination through correspondence and publication actually affected Canadian culture and social relations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".