| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Illustrations, notes, index. xv + 336 pp. $45, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

The history of tourism in the American West emerged as a popular topic in the 1990s. While western boosters often promoted tourism as a panacea for regional ills, scholars have generally taken a more dour view. Adopting the axiom that anyone having a good time must be exploiting someone else, some academics and social critics have portrayed tourism as a virulent contagion that destroys authenticity and community, leaving only wage slaves and overly affluent, overbearing New Yorkers and Californians behind. 1

Editors David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long aim for a more nuanced survey of tourism in the West, still mindful of its dangers, but striving to "establish a closer empathy with tourists, the objects of the academic gaze" (p. 15). They largely succeed, producing an anthology that encapsulates the current state of the field. The twelve essays included are grouped into three categories: "Perspectives: Scholars and Tourists," which provides divergent views of tourism; "Processes: Tourism and Cultural Change," which analyses the intersections between tourism and other issues, from transportation technology to race relations; and "Parks: Tourists in Western Wonderlands." . . .

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