Creating the Land of the Sky - Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina

A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.

About the author

Richard D. Starnes is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University and editor of Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South.

Summary

Examines tourism's social and economic power across the southern US. It argues that western North Carolina benefited from the romanticized image of Appalachia in the post-Civil War American consciousness. This image transformed the southern highlands into an exotic travel destination, a place where both climate and culture offered visitors a myriad of diversions.

Product details

• Authors: Richard D. Starnes
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2005
• EAN: 9780817356040
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5604-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Modern South
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches