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Author Stanonis, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph)

Title Creating the Big Easy [electronic resource] : New Orleans and the emergence of modern tourism, 1918-1945 / Anthony J. Stanonis.

Imprint Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 317 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-301) and index.
Contents Introduction : the city of myths -- A city of destiny : New Orleans businessmen and modern tourism -- New era New Orleans : the Great Depression, taxation, and Robert Maestri -- A new Babylon : vice and gender in New Orleans -- French town : the reconstruction of the Vieux Carre -- A city that care forgot : the reinvention of New Orleans Mardi Gras -- Old New Orleans : race and tourism -- Epilogue : boomtown.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Tourism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
New Orleans (La.) -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0820328170 (cloth : alk. paper)
0820328227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820328171 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780820328225 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820341583 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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