Dark tourism in the American West /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Dawes, Jennifer (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Dark Tourism in the American West
  • 2. Interpretation and Memorialization at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
  • 3. Revisiting Waco and the Branch Davidian Tragedy
  • 4. East by Northwest: Preserving Pacific War Memory at Hanford and Minidoka
  • 5. Contents Over the Carceral Landscape: Space, Place, and Artifacts at the Manzanar National Historic Site
  • 6. Captive Memories: Alcatraz Island and the Cultural Work of Prison Tourism
  • 7. Reenacting the Handcart Debacle: The Work of Rescue at Martin's Cove on the Mormon Trail
  • 8. Recycling Death: Post-Apocalyptic Tourism in the American West
  • 9. In the Dark without a Light: Understanding Unmediated Sites of Dark Tourism
  • 10. How We Look at Dark Places.