TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cox,Karen L.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Destination Dixie: tourism and southern history 
SN  - 9780813042589
AV  - G155.U6 C67 2012
U1  - 338.4/79175 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Conservation and restoration
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Tourism
KW  - History
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History, Local
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813042589/
ER  -