LEADER 04694nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910463528703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0795-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207958 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060349 035 $a(OCoLC)859162338 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748405 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000885449 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11493716 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885449 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10964163 035 $a(PQKB)10132907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442053 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24641 035 $a(DE-B1597)449668 035 $a(OCoLC)1024027636 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980760 035 $a(OCoLC)1041923993 035 $a(OCoLC)1046610582 035 $a(OCoLC)1047011343 035 $a(OCoLC)1049632563 035 $a(OCoLC)1054874803 035 $a(OCoLC)979834087 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207958 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442053 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748405 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682436 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060349 100 $a20121203d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTropical whites$b[electronic resource] $ethe rise of the tourist south in the Americas /$fCatherine Cocks 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 225 0 $aNature and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51154-3 311 $a0-8122-4499-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tA Note on America and Americans --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. A Regulated Arcadia --$tChapter 2. More and More Attractive Each Year --$tChapter 3. Fountain of Youth --$tChapter 4. Dressing for the Tropics --$tChapter 5. Lands of Romance --$tChapter 6. Spontaneous Capital Invisibly Exported --$tChapter 7. The Most Ideal Winter Resorts --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAs late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort-white sand, blue waters, and towering palms-become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the dramatic shift in attitudes toward and popularization of the tropical tourist "Southland" in the Americas: Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Cocks examines the history and development of tropical tourism from the late nineteenth century through the early 1940's, when the tropics constituted ideal winter resorts for vacationers from the temperate zones. Combining history, geography, and anthropology, this provocative book explains not only the transformation of widely held ideas about the relationship between the environment and human bodies but also how this shift in thinking underscored emerging concepts of modern identity and popular attitudes toward race, sexuality, nature, and their interconnections. Cocks argues that tourism, far from simply perverting pristine local cultures and selling superficial misunderstandings of them, served as one of the central means of popularizing the anthropological understanding of culture, new at the time. Together with the rise of germ theory, the emergence of the tropical horticulture industry, changes in passport laws, travel writing, and the circulation of promotional materials, national governments and the tourist industry changed public perception of the tropics from a region of decay and degradation, filled with dangerous health risks, to one where the modern traveler could encounter exotic cultures and a rejuvenating environment. 410 0$aNature and culture in America. 606 $aAmericans$zTropics$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmericans$zTropics$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTourism$zTropics$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTourism$zTropics$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aTropics$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aTropics$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 615 0$aTourism$xHistory 615 0$aTourism$xHistory 676 $a338.4/7918093 700 $aCocks$b Catherine$f1967-$0918459 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463528703321 996 $aTropical whites$92480354 997 $aUNINA