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

by Harvey H. Jackson

Book Overview

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera 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 focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to Panama City, Florida--an area known as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820345318
• ISBN13: 9780820345314
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"