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Virtuous Waters : Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico / by Walsh, Casey

Table of Contents: “…Waters / Cultures -- Bathing and domination in the early modern Atlantic world -- Policing waters and baths in eighteenth century Mexico City -- Enlightenment science of mineral springs -- Groundwater and hydraulic opulence in the late nineteenth century -- Chemistry, biology and the heterogeneity of modern waters -- Dispossession and bottling after the revolution -- Spa tourism in twentieth century Mexico -- Virtuous waters in the twenty first century.…”
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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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Virtuous Waters : Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico / by Walsh, Casey

Table of Contents: “…Waters / Cultures -- Bathing and domination in the early modern Atlantic world -- Policing waters and baths in eighteenth century Mexico City -- Enlightenment science of mineral springs -- Groundwater and hydraulic opulence in the late nineteenth century -- Chemistry, biology and the heterogeneity of modern waters -- Dispossession and bottling after the revolution -- Spa tourism in twentieth century Mexico -- Virtuous waters in the twenty first century.…”
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Geography : an integrated approach / by Waugh, David

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing industries -- 20. Tourism -- 21. Development and globalisation -- Index.…”

Geography : an integrated approach / by Waugh, David

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing industries -- 20. Tourism -- 21. Development and globalisation -- Index.…”

Latin America and global capitalism a critical globalization perspective / by Robinson, William I.

Table of Contents: “…An epochal shift in world capitalism -- Global economy and Latin America, I : nontraditional agricultural exports and agro-industry -- Global economy and Latin America, II : industrial subcontracting, transnational services, tourism, and the export of labor -- Transnational processes in Latin America : class, state, and migration -- The antinomies of global capitalism and the twilight of neoliberalism -- A new cycle of resistance : the future of Latin America and global society.…”
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Latin America and global capitalism a critical globalization perspective / by Robinson, William I.

Table of Contents: “…An epochal shift in world capitalism -- Global economy and Latin America, I : nontraditional agricultural exports and agro-industry -- Global economy and Latin America, II : industrial subcontracting, transnational services, tourism, and the export of labor -- Transnational processes in Latin America : class, state, and migration -- The antinomies of global capitalism and the twilight of neoliberalism -- A new cycle of resistance : the future of Latin America and global society.…”
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African-Brazilian culture and regional identity in Bahia, Brazil by Ickes, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Brazil's Black Rome and the remaking of Bahian regional identity -- Salvador, Bahia, 1930-1954 -- The revitalization of African-Bahian culture -- Performing Bahia: public festivals, samba, and African-Bahian agency -- Rituals of inclusion: evolving discourses of Bahianness -- Carnival of the people: Batucadas and Afox�es -- The project of regional identity formation: culture, politics, and tourism -- Conclusion and epilogue: cultural politics in Bahia.…”
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African-Brazilian culture and regional identity in Bahia, Brazil by Ickes, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Brazil's Black Rome and the remaking of Bahian regional identity -- Salvador, Bahia, 1930-1954 -- The revitalization of African-Bahian culture -- Performing Bahia: public festivals, samba, and African-Bahian agency -- Rituals of inclusion: evolving discourses of Bahianness -- Carnival of the people: Batucadas and Afox�es -- The project of regional identity formation: culture, politics, and tourism -- Conclusion and epilogue: cultural politics in Bahia.…”
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Indian work language and livelihood in Native American history / by Usner, Daniel H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.…”
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Cyclones background, history and impact /

Table of Contents: “…Morden -- The impacts of an increase in tropical cyclone activity on tourism in Mauritius / Sobhee Sanjeev -- Cyclone Nargis and Burma's constitutional referendum / Michael F. …”
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Indian work language and livelihood in Native American history / by Usner, Daniel H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.…”
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Cyclones background, history and impact /

Table of Contents: “…Morden -- The impacts of an increase in tropical cyclone activity on tourism in Mauritius / Sobhee Sanjeev -- Cyclone Nargis and Burma's constitutional referendum / Michael F. …”
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Culture works space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas / by Dávila, Arlene M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls -- Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy -- The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world -- The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino -- Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's nuyorican interventions -- Tango tourism and the political economy of space -- Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism.…”
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Culture works space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas / by Dávila, Arlene M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls -- Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy -- The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world -- The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino -- Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's nuyorican interventions -- Tango tourism and the political economy of space -- Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism.…”
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When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / by Alexander Craft, Renee

Table of Contents: “…: "The gringos are coming! : race, gender, and tourism -- Dancing with the Devil at the crossroads : performance ethnography and staging thresholds of difference -- Dialogical performance, critical ethnography, and the "digital present."…”
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When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / by Alexander Craft, Renee

Table of Contents: “…: "The gringos are coming! : race, gender, and tourism -- Dancing with the Devil at the crossroads : performance ethnography and staging thresholds of difference -- Dialogical performance, critical ethnography, and the "digital present."…”
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Peace first a new model to end war / by Savir, Uri

Table of Contents: “…-- Cities and youth -- Human rights and peace education -- Joint economic, social, environmental, and tourism ventures -- Borders, security, and the international community -- Conclusion: A new vision for 2020.…”
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Peace first a new model to end war / by Savir, Uri

Table of Contents: “…-- Cities and youth -- Human rights and peace education -- Joint economic, social, environmental, and tourism ventures -- Borders, security, and the international community -- Conclusion: A new vision for 2020.…”
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