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Author McIntyre, Rebecca Cawood

Title Souvenirs of the old South : Northern tourism and Southern mythology / Rebecca Cawood McIntyre
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of Contents vii; List of Illustrations ix; Acknowledgments xi; Introduction 1; I The South as American-1840-1860 9; 1 Saratoga! Fiddlesticks!Mineral Springs and Picturesque Scenery 11; II Reconstructing a Southern Landscape-1870-1890 37; 2 A Shadow of Romance: Nostalgia in the Mountain South 39; 3 Streamers of Funereal Moss: Gothicizing the Southern Swamps 68; III African Americans in the Tourist Landscape-1870-1920 97; 4 True Relics of the Old South: Slave Stereotypes and Tourism 99; IV Solidifying the Old South-1890-1920 135
Summary Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
Brochures -- Southern States -- History
Travel in literature.
Group identity -- Southern States -- History
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Southern States -- History
TRAVEL -- United States -- South -- General.
TRAVEL -- United States -- South -- South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
Brochures
Group identity
Manners and customs
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Tourism -- Social aspects
Travel in literature
Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813040691
0813040698
0813038669
9780813038667