Destination Dixie [[electronic resource] ] : tourism and southern history / / edited by Karen L. Cox

• Autore: Cox Karen L. <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/79175
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Southern States - History; Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Southern States
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States History, Local; Southern States Social life and customs
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.
• Titolo autorizzato: Destination Dixie
• ISBN: 0-8130-4349-2; 9780813043492; 0-8130-4258-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786444903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II