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Summary:

An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PEOPLE & PLACES
• 1. Persistence of Fiction: One Hundred Years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home / Hilary Iris Lowe
• 2. From "Lawrence County Negro" to National Hero: The Commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama / Barclay Key
• 3. Saving "The Dump": Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta / Kathleen Clark
• 4. "A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City": (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley / Michael T. Bertrand
• pt. TWO RACE & SLAVERY
• 5. "History as Tourist Bait": Inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939-1969 / Alisa Y. Harrison
• 6. "Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?" Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston / Blain Roberts
• 7. Selling the Civil Rights Movement through Black Political Empowerment in Selma, Alabama / Glenn T. Eskew
• pt. THREE WAR & REMEMBRANCE
• 8. "Challenging the Interest and Reverence of all Patriotic Americans": Preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield / Sarah M. Goldberger
• 9. Calhoun County, Alabama: Confederate Iron Furnaces and the Remaking of History / Jennifer Lynn Gross
• 10. Monument to Many Souths: Tourists Experience Southern Distinctiveness at Stone Mountain / J. Vincent Lowery
• pt. FOUR LANDSCAPE & MEMORY
• 11. Dead but Delightful: Tourism and Memory in New Orleans Cemeteries / Anthony J. Stanonis
• 12. Tourism, Landscape, and History in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Richard D. Starnes
• 13. Authenticity for Sale: The Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the Construction of a Pay-Per-View Culture / Andrew K. Frank.

Author/Creator:

Cox, Karen L., 1962-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Destination Dixie: tourism & southern history [by Cox, K.L.]

Subjects:

Tourism — Southern States — History

Historic sites — Conservation and restoration — Southern States

Southern States — History, Local

Southern States — Social life and customs

Tourism

Historic sites — Conservation and restoration

Historic sites

Local history

Manners and customs

Southern States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

G155.U6 C67 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780813042589 (electronic bk.)
0813042585 (electronic bk.)
9780813042374 [Invalid]
0813042372 [Invalid]
9780813060262 [Invalid]
0813060265 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40021683196

OCLC Numbers:

830516252

Other Control Numbers:

510895 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9932172