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Southern journeys : tourism, history, and culture in the modern south
Title:
Southern journeys : tourism, history, and culture in the modern south
Author:
Starnes, Richard D., 1970-
Publication Information:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
"A notorious attraction" : sex and tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917 / Alecia P. Long -- Hillbillies and the Holy Land : the development of tourism in the Arkansas Ozarks / Brooks Blevins -- Developing the Panhandle : Seagrove Beach, Seaside, Watercolor, and the Florida tourist tradition / Harvey H. Jackson III -- Public and private tourism development in 1930s Appalachia : the Blue Ridge Parkway meets Little Switzerland / Anne Mitchell Whisnant -- Making "America's most interesting city" : tourism and the construction of cultural image in New Orleans, 1940-1984 / J. Mark Souther -- Creating a "variety vacationland" : tourism development in North Carolina, 1930-1990 / Richard D. Starnes -- From millionaires to the masses : tourism at Jekyll Island, Georgia / C. Brenden Martin and June Hall McCash -- Astride the plantation gates : tourism, racial politics, and the development of Hilton Head Island -- Margaret A. Shannon with Stephen W. Taylor -- The road to nowhere : tourism development versus environmentalism in the Great Smoky Mountains / Daniel S. Pierce -- Atlanta's Olympics and the business of tourism / Harvey K. Newman -- Nobody knows the troubles I've seen, but does anyone want to hear about them when they're on vacation? / Ted Ownby.
ISBN:
9780817312978

9780817350093
Format :
Book