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020 _a9780813042589
020 _z9780813042374 (alk. paper)
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_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aG155.U6
_bC67 2012
082 0 0 _a338.4/79175
_223
100 1 _aCox, Karen L.,
_d1962-
245 1 0 _aDestination Dixie
_h[electronic resource] :
_btourism and southern history /
_cedited by Karen L. Cox.
260 _aGainesville :
_bUniversity Press of Florida,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPeople 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.
520 _aAn exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHistoric sites
_xConservation and restoration
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aTourism
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xHistory, Local.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813042589/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c31716
_d31716