Creating the Big Easy
Subtitle: New Orleans and the emergence of modern tourism, 1918-1945
By: Anthony J. Stanonis.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780820328171; 9780820328225
Subjects: Tourism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; New Orleans (La.) -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the city of myths; title: A city of destiny : New Orleans businessmen and modern tourism; title: New era New Orleans : the Great Depression, taxation, and Robert Maestri; title: A new Babylon : vice and gender in New Orleans; title: French town : the reconstruction of the Vieux Carre; title: A city that care forgot : the reinvention of New Orleans Mardi Gras; title: Old New Orleans : race and tourism; title: Epilogue : boomtown.