Tropical Whites : : The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas / / Catherine Cocks.
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort-white sand, blue waters, and towering palms-become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores th...
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Cocks, Catherine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Tropical Whites : The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas / Catherine Cocks. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (276 p.) : 9 color, 12 b/w illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Nature and Culture in America Frontmatter -- 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 -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort-white sand, blue waters, and towering palms-become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the dramatic shift in attitudes toward and popularization of the tropical tourist "Southland" in the Americas: Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Cocks examines the history and development of tropical tourism from the late nineteenth century through the early 1940s, when the tropics constituted ideal winter resorts for vacationers from the temperate zones. Combining history, geography, and anthropology, this provocative book explains not only the transformation of widely held ideas about the relationship between the environment and human bodies but also how this shift in thinking underscored emerging concepts of modern identity and popular attitudes toward race, sexuality, nature, and their interconnections.Cocks argues that tourism, far from simply perverting pristine local cultures and selling superficial misunderstandings of them, served as one of the central means of popularizing the anthropological understanding of culture, new at the time. Together with the rise of germ theory, the emergence of the tropical horticulture industry, changes in passport laws, travel writing, and the circulation of promotional materials, national governments and the tourist industry changed public perception of the tropics from a region of decay and degradation, filled with dangerous health risks, to one where the modern traveler could encounter exotic cultures and a rejuvenating environment. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Americans -- Tropics -- History -- 19th century. Americans -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century. Americans Tropics History 19th century. Americans Tropics History 20th century. Tourism -- Tropics -- History -- 19th century. Tourism -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century. Tourism Tropics History 19th century. Tourism Tropics History 20th century. Tropics -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Tropics -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Latin American. HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). bisacsh American History. American Studies. Caribbean Studies. Latin American Studies. Leisure. Recreation. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812244991 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207958 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812207958 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812207958/original |
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Acknowledgments |
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