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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Nature and Culture in America
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 9 color, 12 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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