Southern journeys
Subtitle: tourism, history, and culture in the modern south
By: edited by Richard D. Starnes.
Contributors: Starnes, Richard D., 1970-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Tourism -- Southern States -- History.; Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Description: Examines tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern United States history, culture and economics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A notorious attraction" : sex and tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917 / Alecia P. Long; title: Hillbillies and the Holy Land : the development of tourism in the Arkansas Ozarks / Brooks Blevins; title: Developing the Panhandle : Seagrove Beach, Seaside, Watercolor, and the Florida tourist tradition / Harvey H. Jackson III; title: Public and private tourism development in 1930s Appalachia : the Blue Ridge Parkway meets Little Switzerland / Anne Mitchell Whisnant; title: Making "America's most interesting city" : tourism and the construction of cultural image in New Orleans, 1940-1984 / J. Mark Souther; title: Creating a "variety vacationland" : tourism development in North Carolina, 1930-1990 / Richard D. Starnes; title: From millionaires to the masses : tourism at Jekyll Island, Georgia / C. Brenden Martin and June Hall McCash; title: Astride the plantation gates : tourism, racial politics, and the development of Hilton Head Island; title: Margaret A. Shannon with Stephen W. Taylor; title: The road to nowhere : tourism development versus environmentalism in the Great Smoky Mountains / Daniel S. Pierce; title: Atlanta's Olympics and the business of tourism / Harvey K. Newman; title: Nobody knows the troubles I've seen, but does anyone want to hear about them when they're on vacation? / Ted Ownby.