Nicholas Dagen Bloom - Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism beyond the Border

Historical research that treats Americans in Mexico includes Diana Anhalt, A Gathering of Fugitives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico, 19481965 (Santa Maria, Calif.: Archer, 2001); Deborah Baldwin, Protestants and the Mexican Revolution: Missionaries, Ministers, and Social Change (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990); William H. Beezley, Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, 2d ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004); Janet Bennion, Desert Patriarchy: Mormons and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley (Tucson: University of Arizona, 2004); Helen Delpar, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992); Paul Dosal, Doing Business with the Dictator: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 18991944 (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1993); Gene Hanrahan, The Bad Yankee: American Entrepreneurs and Financiers in Mexico (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985); John Mason Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Robert Herr, An American Family in the Mexican Revolution (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1999); Tullis F. LaMond, Mormons in Mexico : The Dynamics of Faith and Culture (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1987); Taylor D. Littleton, The Color of Silver: William Spratling, His Life and Art (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000); Joan Mark, The Silver Gringo: William Spratling and Taxco (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000); David Pletcher, Rails, Mines, and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867 1911 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1958); Andrew F. Rolle, The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965); Ramn Ruiz, The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988); and William Schell Jr., In, tegral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876 1911 (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001).

The research on border dynamics is extensive and includes Tom Barry, The Great Divide: The Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990s (New York: Grove, 1994); Claire Fox, The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999); Rosa Fregosa, Mexican Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003); Lawrence Herzog, Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, 1990); Lawrence Herzog, From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); David E. Lorey, The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century: A History of Economic and Social Transformation (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1999); Oscar J. Martinez, Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994); Oscar J. Martnez, ed., U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1996); Jse Saldivar, Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); David Spencer, ed., The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1998); and Andrew Grant Wood, On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2004).

For a general introduction to modern tourist theory, see Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998); Dennis R. Judd and Susan S. Fainstein, eds., The Tourist City (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999); Dennis R. Judd, ed., The Infrastructure of Play: Building the Tourist City (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003); Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Schocken Books, 1976); Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory (New York: Routledge, 1997); and John Urry, The Tourist Gaze (London: Sage Publications, 1990).

The origins of tourism are documented in a number of books, including Michael Foss, ed., On Tour: The British Traveler in Europe (London: OMara, 1989), 197. See also Jeremy Black, The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century (New York: St. Martins, 1992) and Black, Italy and the Grand Tour (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003); James Buzard, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 18001918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Brian Dolan, Ladies of the Grand Tour (London: Harper Collins, 2001); Christopher Hibbert, The Grand Tour (London: Thames Methuen, 1987); and John Stoye, English Travelers Abroad (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989).

American tourism history has also become an active field. See Cindy Aron, Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Warren Belasco, Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 19101945 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979); Dona Brown, Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995); Catherine Cocks, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Karen Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999); Christopher Endy, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); John Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992); John Jakle, The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-century North America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985); Hal K. Rothman, Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-century American West (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998); John F. Sears, Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989); Marguerite Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 18801940 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001); Richard Starnes, ed., Southern Journeys: Tourism, History and Culture in the Modem South (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003); and William W. Stowe, Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-century American Culture (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994).