Destination Dixie tourism and southern history /

An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Karen L., 1962-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
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245 1 0 |a Destination Dixie  |h [electronic resource] :  |b tourism and southern history /  |c edited by Karen L. Cox. 
260 |a Gainesville :  |b University Press of Florida,  |c 2012. 
300 |a ix, 315 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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650 0 |a Historic sites  |x Conservation and restoration  |z Southern States. 
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