Tropical Whites - The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Cocks is an acquiring editor at the University of Iowa Press and author of Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915. Klappentext Tropical Whites explains how the tropical beach resort came to symbolize the iconic vacation landscape. Catherine Cocks argues that the tourism industry romanticized and commodified tropical nature in the global South, ultimately legitimizing cultural pluralism and concepts of modern identity. Zusammenfassung Tropical Whites explains how the tropical beach resort came to symbolize the iconic vacation landscape. Catherine Cocks argues that the tourism industry romanticized and commodified tropical nature in the global South! ultimately legitimizing cultural pluralism and concepts of modern identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on America and Americans Introduction Chapter 1. A Regulated Arcadia Chapter 2. More and More Attractive Each Year Chapter 3. Fountain of Youth Chapter 4. Dressing for the Tropics Chapter 5. Lands of Romance Chapter 6. Spontaneous Capital Invisibly Exported Chapter 7. The Most Ideal Winter Resorts List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Cocks, Cocks Catherine
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2013
• EAN: 9780812244991
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4499-1
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Nature and Culture in America; Nature and Culture in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches