{"product_id":"souvenirs-of-the-old-south-rebecca-cawood-mcintyre-9780813054148","title":"Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Written in a clear, accessible, and lively style, \u003ci\u003eSouvenirs of the Old South\u003c\/i\u003e will be the foundational work for subsequent scholars and readers interested in tourism in the New South.\"--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This study of southern images offers readers a glimpse of how history, culture, race, and class came together in the tourist imagination. If the South emerged from the Civil War a distinctive place, Rebecca McIntyre would remind us that's because distinctiveness sells.\"--Richard Starnes, author of \u003ci\u003eCreating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca McIntyre focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South's modern identity, and she reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South \"southern\" as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. She also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Cawood McIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Cawood McIntyre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813054141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813054148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Rebecca Cawood McIntyre","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47757846151423,"sku":"9780813054148","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5fd3af7-e35c-4dd3-8723-4212d16f1ad1.jpg?v=1765510727","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/souvenirs-of-the-old-south-rebecca-cawood-mcintyre-9780813054148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}