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Small works poverty and economic development in southwestern China / by Donaldson, John A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…-- Roads : building connections to markets -- Migration : go east, young man (and woman) -- Tourism : joyous village life -- Coal mining : black gold -- Conclusion : the micro-oriented state, development, and poverty.…”
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Small works poverty and economic development in southwestern China / by Donaldson, John A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…-- Roads : building connections to markets -- Migration : go east, young man (and woman) -- Tourism : joyous village life -- Coal mining : black gold -- Conclusion : the micro-oriented state, development, and poverty.…”
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Digging up the dead a history of notable American reburials / by Kammen, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…A short history of reburial: patterns of change over time -- Heroes of the Revolution: the siting and reciting of patriotism -- Honor, dishonor, and issues of reputation: from sectionalism to nationalism -- Problematic graves, tourism, and the wishes of survivors -- Disinterred by devotion: religion, race, and spiritual repose -- Repossessing the dead elsewhere in our time.…”
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Digging up the dead a history of notable American reburials / by Kammen, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…A short history of reburial: patterns of change over time -- Heroes of the Revolution: the siting and reciting of patriotism -- Honor, dishonor, and issues of reputation: from sectionalism to nationalism -- Problematic graves, tourism, and the wishes of survivors -- Disinterred by devotion: religion, race, and spiritual repose -- Repossessing the dead elsewhere in our time.…”
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Oil injustice resisting and conceding a pipeline in Ecuador / by Widener, Patricia, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Oil disasters and conflicts -- Lago Agrio : community-driven oil justice -- Quito's NGOs : realizing an environmental fund -- Mindo : oil and tourism may mix -- Esmeraldas : finding dignity -- Transnational responses : evidence for a southern-led global democracy -- Post-OCP : governing and contesting Correa and China in the Amazon.…”
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High country summers early second homes of Colorado, 1880-1940 / by Shellenbarger, Melanie, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a dwelling unlike any other -- The lure of landscape: tourism in Colorado and the Mountain West -- Villas of the vernacular: the Colorado second home in context -- Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park -- The national forests -- Lincoln Hills -- The Denver mountain parks and foothills -- Conclusion: summer people, summer lives.…”
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Oil injustice resisting and conceding a pipeline in Ecuador / by Widener, Patricia, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Oil disasters and conflicts -- Lago Agrio : community-driven oil justice -- Quito's NGOs : realizing an environmental fund -- Mindo : oil and tourism may mix -- Esmeraldas : finding dignity -- Transnational responses : evidence for a southern-led global democracy -- Post-OCP : governing and contesting Correa and China in the Amazon.…”
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High country summers early second homes of Colorado, 1880-1940 / by Shellenbarger, Melanie, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a dwelling unlike any other -- The lure of landscape: tourism in Colorado and the Mountain West -- Villas of the vernacular: the Colorado second home in context -- Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park -- The national forests -- Lincoln Hills -- The Denver mountain parks and foothills -- Conclusion: summer people, summer lives.…”
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Creativity and Its Discontents : China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses / by Pang, Laikwan

Table of Contents: “…Creativity as a problem of modernity -- Creativity as a product of labor -- Creativity as a construct of rights -- Cultural policy, intellectual property rights, and cultural tourism -- Cinema as a creative industry -- Branding the creative city with fine arts -- Animation and transcultural signification -- A semiotics of the counterfeit product -- Imitation or appropriation arts?…”
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Creativity and Its Discontents : China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses / by Pang, Laikwan

Table of Contents: “…Creativity as a problem of modernity -- Creativity as a product of labor -- Creativity as a construct of rights -- Cultural policy, intellectual property rights, and cultural tourism -- Cinema as a creative industry -- Branding the creative city with fine arts -- Animation and transcultural signification -- A semiotics of the counterfeit product -- Imitation or appropriation arts?…”
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River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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Ubiquitous listening affect, attention, and distributed subjectivity / by Kassabian, Anahid

Table of Contents: “…: Starbucks, Putumayo, and distributed tourism.…”
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River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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Ubiquitous listening affect, attention, and distributed subjectivity / by Kassabian, Anahid

Table of Contents: “…: Starbucks, Putumayo, and distributed tourism.…”
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The past is always present the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos / by Lind, Tore Tvarn�, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : toward an ethnomusicological study of Byzantine chant 1 -- Musical blossom -- Sacred musical transorthography -- Producing Mount Athos : Byzantine chant, pilgrimage and tourism -- "The monks have prayer" : on the Athonite style of chanting -- Spiritual silence, sacred sound -- Conclusion -- Greek glossary -- Appendix A: Chain of ps�altes : musical genealogy at Vatopaidi.…”
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Rainbow Bridge / by Hassell, Hank, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The Rainbow Trail -- The story in the rocks: how Rainbow Bridge came to be -- Navajo mountain religion: Rainbow Bridge through Indian eyes -- From shadow into light: the discovery of Rainbow Bridge -- "Not for many eyes to see": early-day tourism in Rainbow Bridge country -- Echo Park, and beyond -- The Sierra Club goes to war -- Reprise and reflection.…”
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The past is always present the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos / by Lind, Tore Tvarn�, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : toward an ethnomusicological study of Byzantine chant 1 -- Musical blossom -- Sacred musical transorthography -- Producing Mount Athos : Byzantine chant, pilgrimage and tourism -- "The monks have prayer" : on the Athonite style of chanting -- Spiritual silence, sacred sound -- Conclusion -- Greek glossary -- Appendix A: Chain of ps�altes : musical genealogy at Vatopaidi.…”
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Rainbow Bridge / by Hassell, Hank, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The Rainbow Trail -- The story in the rocks: how Rainbow Bridge came to be -- Navajo mountain religion: Rainbow Bridge through Indian eyes -- From shadow into light: the discovery of Rainbow Bridge -- "Not for many eyes to see": early-day tourism in Rainbow Bridge country -- Echo Park, and beyond -- The Sierra Club goes to war -- Reprise and reflection.…”
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Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.…”
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New Jews the end of the Jewish diaspora / by Aviv, Caryn, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from diaspora Jews to new Jews -- Let my people stay : Moscow's Jews after the exodus -- Encounters with ghosts : youth tourism and the diaspora business -- Temples of American identity : Jewish museums in Los Angeles -- Castro, Chelsea, and Tel Aviv : queer Jews at home -- Our kind of town : New York is the center of the Jewish universe -- Epilogue : the end of the Jews.…”
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