- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages)
- Summary
- "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 Statement
- The American South series
- Uniform Title
- Designing Dixie (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Designing Dixie (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-252) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- "Go south": Yankee travel to the South and the ruins of Reconstruction -- From Old South to Old Spain : Flagler's resort hotels and sectional reconciliation in St. Augustine -- "On to Richmond" : Richmond and the new Dominion -- "The Chicago of the South": Atlanta and the new South creed -- Conclusion: The legacies of Southern hospitality.
- LCCN
- 2014023122
- OCLC
- ssj0001378309
- Author
Hillyer, Reiko, 1969-
- Title
Designing Dixie [electronic resource] : tourism, memory, and urban space in the new South / Reiko Hillyer.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Series
The American South series
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-252) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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