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Book Review
| The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest. Edited by Hal K. Rothman. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. xi + 250 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $34.95.)
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The past ten years have seen a flourishing of scholarship devoted to southwestern tourism. Essays by several of the scholars responsible for this development are collected in this volume that, as the title indicates, focuses on cultural tourism. As with many edited volumes, there is some unevenness and some essays are stronger than others. For the purposes of this review, I will concentrate on what I consider to be three of the most significant contributions to the book. |
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