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Chargement... A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880-1941 (original 2009; édition 2009)par Suzanne B. Julin
Information sur l'oeuvreA marvelous hundred square miles : Black Hills tourism, 1880-1941 par Suzanne B. Julin (2009)
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() It is evident from the beginning that the author has a passion for the area and is extremely knowledgeable about how it came into being. From the introduction I had hopes that it would read more like a travelogue taking the reader on a journey into the areas past and letting us into the hidden details. And although the information is solid, the book doesn't read that way at all. In fact its often downright confusing. Within one chapter we're reading about tourism, but in the span of four pages we start at 1897 go to 1913, then jump back to 1911 and introduced to even more people. There are no clear delineations to help the reader focus on one time period or one area within the chapter and it's very difficult to keep up with what area you're in. The overall information and photographs used within the book however are fairly solid (she does gloss over the fact that Mt. Rushmore's land was essentially stolen from the Native Americans and was sacred land to them). It's a useful book if someone is writing a history paper on the area or has specific facets of information that they are looking up, not so much for a pleasure read. ![]() ![]() ![]() aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Despite their isolated location on the edge of the Great Plains, the Black Hills have become an important tourist destination over the past one hundred years. Suzanne Julin examines the early development of this phenomenon and the influences - political, local, and national - that helped create a prosperous tourist industry in the region between the 1880s and the start of World War II. Public policy and state and federal government actions promoted the Black Hills as the vanguard of both the mountain West and the Wild West and developed a national park, two national monuments, the largest state park in the country, and the iconic Mount Rushmore as methods to direct tourist traffic to the region. Julin argues that these promotional efforts affected more than just tourism; they helped form or change local trends and issues and established the identity of the region. A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles addresses the concerted efforts of governmental, quasi-governmental, and private groups to develop the tourist industry in the early twentieth century. While this book is specifically about the Black Hills, its larger themes pertain to the development of tourism as one of the most important industries in the modern United States. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Critiques des anciens de LibraryThing en avant-premièreLe livre A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880-1941 de Suzanne B. Julin était disponible sur LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Discussion en coursAucun
![]() GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)917.839043History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America Western U.S. South DakotaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:![]()
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The book has a very limited scope, being focussed solely on the Black Hills area of South Dakota before the USA’s entrance into the Second World War; with such a narrow focus it is curious that there is a simple assumption that the reader knows about the area of interest, many of the personalities, the specialised knowledge that ought to be explained before beginning the history. To that end, a map of the Black Hills would have been useful, locating them within the United States; there is a small and not terribly good map showing the location within South Dakota and Wyoming, and placing some of the points of interest within the Hills, the eponymous hundred square mile, but i found it curiously unuseful as a reference, being little more than blobs of colour with a few circles and squiggles as towns and roads. One may argue, saying that any map could be described that way; i merely point to the difference between these two and any production of the Ordnance Survey.
Unfortunately, the quality of writing seems to be of a similar calibre, giving the information promised in the subtitle, but with little of the flair or style which a skilled historical author might have brought to it. (Disclosure: The book may be suffering by comparison, as i am also currently reading Frank Stenton’s volume of the Oxford History of England, Anglo-Saxon England, which is brilliant.)
Complete review at http://rhydypennau.blogspot.com/2009/12/early-review.html