TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cocks,Catherine
TI  - Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas
T2  - Nature and Culture in America Series
SN  - 9780812207958
AV  - G155.T73C64 2013 
U1  - 338.4/7918093 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Americans-Tropics-History-19th century
KW  - Americans-Tropics-History-20th century
KW  - Tourism-Tropics-History-19th century
KW  - Tourism-Tropics-History-20th century
KW  - Tropics-Race relations-History-19th century
KW  - Tropics-Race relations-History-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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