Cocks, Catherine. <br/><br/>
Tropical Whites :  The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (270 pages) 
 - Nature and Culture in America Series .
 - Nature and Culture in America Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on America and Americans -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Regulated Arcadia -- Chapter 2. More and More Attractive Each Year -- Chapter 3. Fountain of Youth -- Chapter 4. Dressing for the Tropics -- Chapter 5. Lands of Romance -- Chapter 6. Spontaneous Capital Invisibly Exported -- Chapter 7. The Most Ideal Winter Resorts -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments. 
<br/><br/> Tropical Whites explains how the tropical beach resort came to symbolize the iconic vacation landscape. Catherine Cocks argues that the tourism industry romanticized and commodified tropical nature in the global South, ultimately legitimizing cultural pluralism and concepts of modern identity. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812207958 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Americans-Tropics-History-19th century.<br/>Americans-Tropics-History-20th century.<br/>Tourism-Tropics-History-19th century.<br/>Tourism-Tropics-History-20th century.<br/>Tropics-Race relations-History-19th century.<br/>Tropics-Race relations-History-20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G155.T73C64 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.4/7918093