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Book Review


Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South. Ed. by Richard D. Starnes. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xx, 310 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8173-1297-8. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-81735009-8.)
In the expanding literature on American tourism, Richard D. Starnes's edited collection stands as a solid entry. The volume earns bold billing: "This book," declares the back cover, "is the first to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics." Perhaps. Blurbs aside, the contribution of Southern Journeys is real. Overall, its essays offer an excellent social history of tourism in the post–Civil War South and fill an important historiographical gap. . . .
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