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The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast Hardback - 2012

by Harvey H. Jackson

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Hardback. New. Traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with small fishing villages, through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Harvey H. Jackson III explores the rise of this area as a vacation destination for the lower South's middle- and working-class families.
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  • Title The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast
  • Author Harvey H. Jackson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 49513th
  • Condition New
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press
  • Date 2012-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780820334004
  • ISBN 9780820334004 / 0820334006
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Alabama
    • Geographic Orientation: Florida
  • Library of Congress subjects Gulf Coast (Fla.) - History, Gulf Coast (Ala.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011040110
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.99

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/27/2012, Page 77

About the author

HARVEY H. JACKSON III is Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University. His many books include Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia (Georgia), Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama, and Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State.