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Holiday in Mexico : critical reflections on tourism and tourist encounters / edited by Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Mexico.
- Tourism.
- Americans--Travel--Mexico.
- Americans.
- Mexico--Relations--United States.
- Mexico.
- United States--Relations--Mexico.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collection provides analysis of the tourist industry in Mexico, examining its origins, promoters, and power relations, and showing how Mexico used its cultural capital and the development of its tourism industry to modernize.
- Contents:
- Introduction: tourism studies and the tourism dilemma / Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood
- The U.S./Mexican war and the beginnings of American tourism in Mexico / Andrea Boardman
- Teotihuacan: showcase for the centennial / Christina Bueno
- On the selling of Rey Momo : early tourism and the marketing of carnival in Veracruz / Andrew Grant Wood
- Goodwill ambassadors on holiday : tourism, diplomacy, and Mexico/United States relations / Dina Berger
- Behind the noir border : tourism, the vice racket, and power relations in Baja California's border zone, 1938/65 / Eric M. Schantz
- Fun in Acapulco? the politics of development on the Mexican Riviera / Andrew Sackett
- Colonial outpost to artists' Mecca: conflict and collaboration in the development of San Miguel de Allende's tourism industry / Lisa Pinley Covert
- Jose Cuervo and the gentrified worm : food, drink, and the touristic consumption of Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
- Cancun and the campo : indigenous migration and tourism development in the Yucatan Peninsula / M. Bianet Castellanos
- Marketing Mexico's great masters : folk art tourism and the neoliberal politics of exhibition / Mary K. Coffey
- Golfing in the desert : Los Cabos and post-PRI tourism in Mexico / Alex M. Saragoza
- The beach and beyond : observations from a travel writer on dreams, decadence, and defense / Barbara Kastelein
- Conclusion: should we stay or should we go? reflections on tourism past and present / Andrew Grant Wood and Dina Berger.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036001
- 9781283036009
- 1283036002
- 9780822391265
- 0822391260
- OCLC:
- 609147111
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