03704nam 2200637 a 450 991046304660332120200520144314.00-8130-4349-297808130434920-8130-4258-5(CKB)2670000000299081(EBL)1077320(OCoLC)820123124(SSID)ssj0000783062(PQKBManifestationID)11418691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783062(PQKBWorkID)10764607(PQKB)10315755(MiAaPQ)EBC1077320(StDuBDS)EDZ0000125648(MdBmJHUP)muse24375(Au-PeEL)EBL1077320(CaPaEBR)ebr10629496(CaONFJC)MIL513097(OCoLC)830516252(EXLCZ)99267000000029908120120807d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrDestination Dixie[electronic resource] tourism and southern history /edited by Karen L. CoxGainesville University Press of Florida20121 online resource (328 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8130-4237-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.TourismSouthern StatesHistoryHistoric sitesConservation and restorationSouthern StatesSouthern StatesHistory, LocalSouthern StatesSocial life and customsElectronic books.TourismHistory.Historic sitesConservation and restoration338.4/79175Cox Karen L.1962-986020MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463046603321Destination Dixie2253740UNINA