Title Tropical whites : the rise of the tourist south in the Americas / Catherine Cocks

Edition First edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Nature and culture Nature and culture in America. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject 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 SUBJECT Tropics -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Tropics -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Tropics Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012048416 ISBN 9780812207958 0812207955 0812244990 9780812244991

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