Tropical whites : the rise of the tourist south in the Americas /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cocks, Catherine, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Nature and culture in America.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Americans > Tropics > History > 19th century.
Americans > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Tourism > Tropics > History > 19th century.
Tourism > Tropics > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Americans.
Race relations.
Tourism.
Tropics > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Tropics > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Tropics.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A regulated Arcadia
  • More and more attractive each year
  • Fountain of youth
  • Dressing for the tropics
  • Lands of romance
  • Spontaneous capital invisibly exported
  • The most ideal winter resorts.

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