04857nam 2200877Ia 450 991078830640332120200520144314.00-8122-0795-510.9783/9780812207958(CKB)3170000000060349(OCoLC)859162338(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748405(SSID)ssj0000885449(PQKBManifestationID)11493716(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885449(PQKBWorkID)10964163(PQKB)10132907(MdBmJHUP)muse24641(DE-B1597)449668(OCoLC)1024027636(OCoLC)1037980760(OCoLC)1041923993(OCoLC)1046610582(OCoLC)1047011343(OCoLC)1049632563(OCoLC)1054874803(OCoLC)979834087(DE-B1597)9780812207958(Au-PeEL)EBL3442053(CaPaEBR)ebr10748405(CaONFJC)MIL682436(MiAaPQ)EBC3442053(EXLCZ)99317000000006034920121203d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTropical whites[electronic resource] the rise of the tourist south in the Americas /Catherine Cocks1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20131 online resource (270 p.)Nature and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51154-3 0-8122-4499-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --A Note on America and Americans --Introduction --Chapter 1. A Regulated Arcadia --Chapter 2. More and More Attractive Each Year --Chapter 3. Fountain of Youth --Chapter 4. Dressing for the Tropics --Chapter 5. Lands of Romance --Chapter 6. Spontaneous Capital Invisibly Exported --Chapter 7. The Most Ideal Winter Resorts --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsAs late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort-white sand, blue waters, and towering palms-become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the dramatic shift in attitudes toward and popularization of the tropical tourist "Southland" in the Americas: Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Cocks examines the history and development of tropical tourism from the late nineteenth century through the early 1940's, when the tropics constituted ideal winter resorts for vacationers from the temperate zones. Combining history, geography, and anthropology, this provocative book explains not only the transformation of widely held ideas about the relationship between the environment and human bodies but also how this shift in thinking underscored emerging concepts of modern identity and popular attitudes toward race, sexuality, nature, and their interconnections. Cocks argues that tourism, far from simply perverting pristine local cultures and selling superficial misunderstandings of them, served as one of the central means of popularizing the anthropological understanding of culture, new at the time. Together with the rise of germ theory, the emergence of the tropical horticulture industry, changes in passport laws, travel writing, and the circulation of promotional materials, national governments and the tourist industry changed public perception of the tropics from a region of decay and degradation, filled with dangerous health risks, to one where the modern traveler could encounter exotic cultures and a rejuvenating environment.Nature and culture in America.AmericansTropicsHistory19th centuryAmericansTropicsHistory20th centuryTourismTropicsHistory19th centuryTourismTropicsHistory20th centuryTropicsRace relationsHistory19th centuryTropicsRace relationsHistory20th centuryAmerican History.American Studies.Caribbean Studies.Latin American Studies.Leisure.Recreation.AmericansHistoryAmericansHistoryTourismHistoryTourismHistory338.4/7918093Cocks Catherine1967-1474509MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788306403321Tropical whites3690351UNINA