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- W1541626676 abstract "Tropical Whites: The Rise of Tourist South in Americas. By Catherine Cocks. Nature and Culture in America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. [x], 255. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4499-1.) Tropical Whites: The Rise of Tourist South in Americas is a study of America's historical role in development of global tourist South, or what Catherine Cocks calls the (p. 2). Cocks chronicles rise of tropical tourism in Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and Caribbean by looking at how late-nineteenth-century Eurocentric depictions of tropics as the white man's grave underwent a dramatic transformation during early twentieth century (p. 2). She argues that the historical shift usually understood as emergence of a modern society, one characterized by cultural pluralism and moral liberalization, owed much to tourist industry's production of 'tropical whites'--civilized, pale-skinned people with youthful, sensuous joy of dark-skinned primitives (p. 2). Cocks attributes evolution of Southland as a popular tourist region to transformations in medicine, horticulture, and transportation. These changes facilitated shift from environmental determinism to cultural pluralism, which had two major tributaries--romantic racialism and heterosexual liberalism--that downplayed civilization's repressive role and emphasized productive variety of human nature (p. 7). Cocks divides her study into seven chapters that trace rise of tropical tourism in Southland and its contribution to popularizing cultural pluralism. Her first chapter explores how germ theory, phototherapy, and commercial horticulture convinced U.S. travelers about health benefits of tropics (p. 40). Tourism boosters, especially in Southern California and Florida, successfully capitalized on medical literature from late 1880s to counter opposing viewpoints of race theorists, geographers, and imperial officials who stressed dangers of racial degeneration (p. 21). In chapter 2 Cocks transitions to a detailed look at profound impact of advancements in transportation and hotel accommodations, particularly precursor to modern-day cruise ships: luxury passenger liners. Cocks explains that U.S.-owned United Fruit Company, along with developers like Henry Plant, played an instrumental role in stimulating Caribbean tourism because they not only made travel more pleasurable but also distanced it from colonization. …" @default.
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