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Informationen zum Autor Dina Berger is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of The Development and Promotion of Mexico’s Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night.Andrew Grant Wood is Associate Professor of History at University of Tulsa. He is the author of Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870–1927, and the editor of The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.–Mexico Divide. Klappentext Collection provides analysis of the tourist industry in Mexico, examining its origins, promoters, and power relations, and showing how Mexico used its cultural capital and the development of its tourism industry to modernize. Zusammenfassung With its archaeological sites! colonial architecture! pristine beaches! and alluring cities! Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travellers. This book takes a broad historical and geographical look at Mexico! covering a range of tourist destinations from Tijuana and Acapulco! and the development of tourism from the 1840s onwards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Tourism Studies and the Tourism Dilemma / Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood 1 The U.S.-Mexican War and the Beginnings of American Tourism in Mexico / Andrea Boardman 21 Teotihuacán: Showcase for the Centennial / Christina Bueno 54 On the Selling of Rey Momo: Early Tourism and the Marketing of Carnival in Veracruz / Andrew Grant Wood 77 Goodwill Ambassadors on Holiday: Tourism, Diplomacy, and Mexico-United States Relations / Dina Berger 107 Behind the Noir Border: Tourism, the Vice Racket, and Power Relations in Baja California's Border Zone, 1938–65 / Eric M. Schantz 130 Fun in Acapulco? The Politics of Development on the Mexican Riviera / Andrew Sackett 161 Colonial Outpost to Artists' Mecca: Conflict and Collaboration in the Development of San Miguel de Allende's Tourism Industry / Lisa Pinley Covert 183 José Cuervo and the Gentrified Worm: Food, Drink, and the Touristic Consumption of Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher 221 Cancún and the Campo: Indigenous Migration and Tourism Development in the Yucatán Peninsula / M. Bianet Castellanos 241 Marketing Mexico's Great Masters: Folk Art Tourism and the Neoliberal Politics of Exhibition / Mary K. Coffey 265 Golfing in the Desert: Los Cabos and Post-PRI Tourism in Mexico / Alex M. Saragoza 295 The Beach and Beyond: Observations from a Travel Writer on Dreams, Decadence, and Defense / Barbara Kastelein 320 Conclusion: Should We Stay or Should We Go? Reflections on Tourism Past and Present / Andrew Grant Wood and Dina Berger 371 Contributors 385 Index 387...
