Creating the land of the sky : tourism and society in western North Carolina /
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Modern South.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Sanitariums, Railroads, and the New South; 2. Building Image and Infrastructure: Tourism, Development, and Regional Identity, 18751930; 3. Metropolis of the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Urban Development in Asheville, North Carolina, 18801931; 4. "The Fellowship of Kindred Minds Is like to That Above": Religious Tourism in God's Country; 5. National Parks, Ski Resorts, and Second Homes: Mountain Tourism Development after 1930; 6. Life, Labor, and Culture in the Land of the Sky; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index.