Creating the Big Easy - New Orleans And the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945

Informationen zum Autor ANTHONY J. STANONIS is a lecturer in modern U.S. history at Queens University, Belfast. He is the editor of Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South and author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 (both Georgia). Klappentext Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from a corrupt and sullied port of call into a national tourist destination. The author tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure. Zusammenfassung Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Stanonis, Anthony J Stanonis, Anthony J. Stanonis
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2006
• EAN: 9780820328225
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2822-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches