Tropical Whites : The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas /
This book explains how the tropical beach resort came to symbolize the iconic vacation landscape. The author argues that the tourism industry romanticized and commodified tropical nature in the global South, ultimately legitimizing cultural pluralism and concepts of modern identity.
Autor principal: | Cocks, Catherine, 1967- (Autor) |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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