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Illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Daniel Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.

Mythic Frontiers Remebering Forgetting and

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      Publisher: MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida
      Publication Date: 4/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813062532, 978-0813062532
      ISBN10: 0813062535
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      Book Synopsis
      Illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Daniel Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.

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