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Canada and the United States

Anthony J. Stanonis. Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 317. Cloth $59.00, paper $22.95.
The burgeoning of historical research on tourism in the United States over the past fifteen years made a study of New Orleans inevitable and much to be desired. Anthony J. Stanonis draws on extensive research in local archives to document the contentious process through which politicians, businessmen, historic preservationists, and regionalist writers burnished New Orleans' reputation as a picturesque citadel of French Creole culture between 1918 and 1945. (The city also recently gained a second history; Mark Souther's New Orleans on Parade [2006] takes up where Stanonis leaves off.)	1
The book falls into two parts. The first two chapters chronicle the gradual realization by the city's businessmen that their fortunes were to be made in tourism rather than manufacturing. The crippling effect of the Great Depression on industry and municipal tax revenues catalyzed this shift. Having established the chronology, Stanionis then develops four thematic chapters that address the suppression of the open sale of sex and alcohol, making the city more attractive to respectable visitors; the campaign to preserve and reconstruct the Vieux Carré, the city's old French center; the transformation of Mardi Gras from a largely local celebration dominated by elites into a public, commercial tourist attraction; and boosters' efforts to lessen the visibility of black New Orleanians, especially by appropriating jazz for whites.	. . .

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