Devil's bargains : tourism in the twentieth-century American West / Hal K. Rothman.
Devil's bargains : tourism in the twentieth-century American West / Hal K. Rothman.
Devil's bargains : tourism in the twentieth-century American West / Hal K. Rothman.
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Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1998.
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N338.479178/1
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English
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xi, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Maui Redux -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tourism and the Framing of a Culture -- 3. The Tourism of Hegemony I: Railroads, Elites, and the Grand Canyon -- 4. The Tourism of Hegemony II: The Railroad, Neonativity, and Santa Fe -- 5. Tourism on the Actual Periphery: Archaeology and Dude Ranching -- 6. Intra...
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Publisher
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1998.
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Kansas
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into America's "land of opportunism." From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns throughout the West have been turned over to outsiders - and not just to those who visit and move on, but to those who stay and contr...
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Devil's bargains : tourism in the twentieth-century American West / Hal K. Rothman.
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Development of western resources.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-425) and index.
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N338.479178/1
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74VvEDN2E6R3
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0700609105(cased) :
9780700609109 (cloth)
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338.4791780433
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991011528249702626
