The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest Contributor(s): Shapiro, Aaron (Author) |
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ISBN: 081667793X ISBN-13: 9780816677931 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
Dewey: 338.479 |
LCCN: 2012043825 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7" W x 8.9" (1.35 lbs) 312 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Geographic Orientation - Michigan - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin |
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Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure--and tourism in particular--has shaped modern America. |