The Business of Leisure

Andrew Grant Wood is the Stanley Rutland Professor of American History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870–1927 and Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography. Contributors include: Fernando Armas Asín, Rodrigo Booth, Félix Manuel Burgos, Meri L. Clark, Rocio Gomez, Kenneth R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Manley, Mark Rice, Anadelia Romo, Blake C. Scott, Evan Ward, Andrew Grant Wood.  

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Travel History’s Checkered Past as Prelude to Future Catastrophe?
Andrew Grant Wood
Part 1. Burgeoning International Travel
1. From the Andes to the Alps: Colombian Writers on Travels in Europe
Meri L. Clark
2. Railroads and Steamships: Foreign Investment in the Early Development of Peruvian Tourism, 1900–1930
Fernando Armas Asín
3. Changing Caribbean Routes: The Rise of International Air Travel
Blake C. Scott
4. From the “Romance of Industry” to the “National Soul”: Promoting Travel in the Pan American Union
Anadelia Romo
Part 2. Developing National Tourism
5. The Making of an Elite Tourist Enclave: Viña del Mar’s Miramar Beach, Chile (1872–1910)
Rodrigo Booth
6. “To Know Peru Is to Admire It”: National Tourism Promotion and Populism in Peru, 1930–1948
Mark Rice
7. Domestic Tourism in Golden-Age Veracruz, Mexico
Andrew Grant Wood
8. The Hotel Casino Project That Put Ecuador’s Tourism Hopes on Pause
Kenneth R. Kincaid
Part 3. Politics, Projects, and Postwar Possibilities
9. An Alliance for Tourists: The Transformation of Guatemalan Tourism Development, 1935–1982
Evan Ward
10. “Created by God” (or Columbus?) for Tourism: Building Tourism Fantasy in the Dominican Republic, 1966–1978
Elizabeth Manley
Part 4. Postmodern Ironies and Dark Tourism
11. Mina El Edén and Dark Tourism in Zacatecas, Mexico
Rocio Gomez
12. Netflix Narcos and Narco-tours: Film Tourism Meets Dark Tourism in Medellín, Colombia
Félix Manuel Burgos
List of Contributors
Index