Destination Dixie tourism and southern history /

An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.

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Autore principale: Cox, Karen L., 1962-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
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Sommario:
  • People and places: 1. Persistence of fiction: one hundred years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain boyhood home / Hilary Iris Lowe
  • From "Lawrence County negro" to national hero: the commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama / Barclay Key
  • 3. Saving "The Dump": Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta / Kathleen Clark
  • 4. "A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City": (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, birthplace of Elvis Presley / Michael T. Bertrand
  • Part II. Race and slavery: 5. "History as tourist bait": inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939-1969 / Alisa Y. Harrison
  • 6. "Is it okay to talk about slaves?": segregating the past in Historic Charleston / Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts
  • 7. Selling the civil rights movement through black political empowerment in Selma, Alabama / Glenn T. Eskew
  • Part III. War and remembrance: 8. "Challenging the interest and reverence of all patriotic Americans": preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield / Sarah M. Goldberger
  • 9. Calhoun County, Alabama: Confederate iron furnaces and the remaking of history / John Walker Davis and Jennifer Lynn Gross
  • 10. A monument to many Souths: tourists experience Southern distinctiveness at Stone Mountain / J. Vincent Lowery
  • Part IV. Landscape and memory: 11. Dead but delightful: tourism and memory in New Orleans cemeteries / Anthony J. Stanonis
  • 12. Tourism, landscape, and history in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Richard D. Starnes
  • 13. Authenticity for sale: the Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the construction of a pay-per-view culture / Andrew K. Frank.