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Destination Dixie : tourism and southern history / edited by Karen L. Cox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Karen L., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Southern States--History.
- Tourism.
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--Southern States.
- Historic sites.
- Southern States--History, Local.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.
- Contents:
- 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
- "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
- 7. Selling the civil rights movement through Black political empowerment in Selma, Alabama / Glenn T. Eskew
- "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 and 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813043494
- 0813043492
- 9780813042589
- 0813042585
- OCLC:
- 820123124
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