Destination Dixie : tourism & Southern history / edited by Karen L. Cox.
An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780813042374
- ISBN: 0813042372
- Physical Description: ix, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- People & places. 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 -- Saving "The dump" : race and the restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta / Kathleen Clark -- "A tradition-conscious cotton city" : (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, birthplace of Elvis Presley / Michael T. Bertrand -- Race & slavery. "History as tourist bait" : inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939-1969 / Alisa Y. Harrison -- "Is it okay to talk about slaves?" : segregating the past in historic Charleston / Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts -- Selling the civil rights movement through black political empowerment in Selma, Alabama / Glenn T. Eskew -- War & remembrance. "Challenging the interest and reverence of all patriotic Americans" : preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield / Sarah M. Goldberger -- Calhoun County, Alabama : Confederate iron furnaces and the remaking of history / John Walker Davis and Jennifer Lynn Gross -- A monument to many souths : tourists experience southern distinctiveness at Stone Mountain / J. Vincent Lowery -- Landscape & memory. Dead but delightful : tourism and memory in New Orleans cemeteries / Anthony J. Stanonis -- Tourism, landscape, and history in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Richard D. Starnes -- Authenticity for sale : the Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the construction of a pay-per-view culture / Andrew K. Frank.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 338.4 COX (Text) | 37810435222269 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
