Tourism in the mountain South
Subtitle: a double-edged sword
By: C. Brenden Martin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781572335752
Subjects: Tourism -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Description and travel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Taking the cure : the antebellum origins of tourism in the mountain South; title: "Millionaires must cost us something" : the economics of Victorian tourism in the highland South; title: "A strange land and people" : regional identity, cultural interaction, and tourism in the mountain South; title: Trains, trees, and travelers : tourism and the landscape in the southern highlands; title: "It's a whole lot easier to pick tourists than to pick cotton" : the economics of mountain tourism in the automobile age; title: "To keep the spirit of mountain culture alive" : modern tourism, regional identity, and cultural change in the southern highlands; title: "Dang if I ever seed sich a way to skin up a mountain" : modern tourism and the landscape in the mountain South.