Stanonis, Anthony J.

Creating the Big Easy New Orleans and the emergence of modern tourism, 1918-1945 / [electronic resource] : Anthony J. Stanonis. - Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2006. - xiv, 317 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-301) and index.

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 Carré -- A city that care forgot : the reinvention of New Orleans Mardi Gras -- Old New Orleans : race and tourism -- Epilogue : boomtown.


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Tourism--History.--Louisiana--New Orleans


New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.


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