Designing Dixie
Subtitle: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813936703
Subjects: Tourism; Memory; Public spaces; Reconciliation; Capitalism; Southern states, social conditions
Description: "This book recounts how forward-looking Southern boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in St. Augustine, Richmond, and Atlanta carefully crafted usable pasts to promote sectional reconciliation and attract northern tourists and investors after the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.