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Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South (The American South Series)
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Description for Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South (The American South Series)
Hardcover. "This book recounts how forward-looking Southern boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in St. Augustine, Richmond, and Atlanta carefully crafted usable pasts to promote sectional reconciliation and attract northern tourists and investors after the Civil War"--Provided by publisher. Series: The American South. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; AMX; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko Hillyer shows how these boosters crafted distinctive local pasts designed to promote their economic futures and to attract northern tourists and investors.
Neither romanticizing the Old South nor appealing to Lost Cause ideology, promoters of New South industrialization used urban design to construct particular relationships to each city’s southern, slaveholding, and Confederate pasts. Drawing on the approaches ... Read more
Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko Hillyer shows how these boosters crafted distinctive local pasts designed to promote their economic futures and to attract northern tourists and investors.
Neither romanticizing the Old South nor appealing to Lost Cause ideology, promoters of New South industrialization used urban design to construct particular relationships to each city’s southern, slaveholding, and Confederate pasts. Drawing on the approaches ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
The American South Series
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936703
SKU
V9780813936703
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Ref
99-1
About Unknown
Reiko Hillyer is Assistant Professor of History at Lewis and Clark College, USA.
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