Aaron Shapiro

The Lure of the North Woods

Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred industrial countryside into the playground we know today. Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland and reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780816677931
• ISBN-10: 081667793X
• Artikelnr.: 37147677

Autorenporträt

Aaron Shapiro, a Chicago native and North Woods visitor since his youth, is assistant professor of history at Auburn University. He previously served as national historian for the USDA Forest Service in Washington, D.C., and as assistant director of the Scholl Center for Family and Community History at Chicago’s Newberry Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: A North Woods Transformation
1. A Crop Worth Cultivating: Creating the North Woods
2. Tourists Do Not Deplete Our Soil: Interwar Land Conservation
3. No Dull Days at Dunn’s: Labor and Leisure in the North Woods
4. Tell the World about Your Charms: The Promotional Appeal
5. You’ve Earned It—Now Enjoy It: Playing in the Postwar Era
6. The Not So Quiet Crisis: Tourism, Wilderness, and Regional Development
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index