Evan R Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 329295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan R Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9064-3007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Desarrollo agrícola y acuerdos políticos en el norte de México: Los centros de contratación del Programa Bracero, 1947-1964
Blake C. Scott. Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism
Journal Article Blake C. Scott. Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism. Get access Blake C. Scott. Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. 258. Paper $29.95. Evan Ward Evan Ward Brigham Young University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Page 789, https://doi.org/10.…
An Entrepot for Tourism’: From developmental tourism to gateway travel in Singapore, 1937–2019
This article narrates Singaporean tourism development vis-à-vis conventional hotel-based and expensive public relations campaign models of tourism development championed by Western multi-lateral and private institutions in the postcolonial period. Using documents from the National Archives of Singapore, this article contends that Singapore opted for an infrastructure-led, aviation-based tourism development model, which culminated in the creation …
Hidden in Plain Sight: Tourism Planning, Afro-Colombian Society and Community in Barú, Colombia
This article builds upon the scholarship of Alina Helg and other historians working on questions of racial identity in Colombia, and the Caribbean section of that country more specifically. Colombia is unique in that its identity is indigenous, African, as well as European. Its Afro-Colombian elements are often overlooked by virtue of the mestizo identity that has dominated settlement of its Andean highlands around the capital, Bogota. Using tech…
Before Dubai: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Iranian tourism development, 1967–1969
This essay examines the transcultural vision of Neezam Amery and William Wesley Peters (of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) in conceptualising touristscapes for Minoo and Kish Islands. It emphasises the hybrid approach of the architects in appealing at one and the same time to Arab and Western tourists, the staggering environmental costs of such an undertaking, and the role that contemporary tourism in Beirut played in shaping their vision for …
Mark Rice. Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru
A volume that is long overdue in the history of Latin American and global tourism, Mark Rice’s Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru takes its place among a recent number of solidly grounded regional studies that highlight the outsize influence of leisure on national identity and development. Like Lisa Pinley Covert’s San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site (2017), Rice’s stud…
Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire
At the turn of the twenty-first century, Dennis Merrill published his pioneering work on tourism and international relations, “Negotiating Cold War Paradise: US Tourism, Economic Planning, and Cultural Modernity in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico,” in Diplomatic History (2001). A flourish of books on tourism development and international relations, including monographs by Merrill (Negotiating Paradise: US Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Lat…
Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico
While historians in general consider the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as the crucial turning point in modern Mexican history, they continue to debate to what degree that decade-long conflict represented fundamental change or continuity in the twentieth-century trajectory of the nation's political and economic institutions. The emergence of environmental history in the past 30 years offers another vantage point for assessing this question. Chris…
Footprints, Frontiers, and Empires: Latin American Tourism Development, 1840–1959
This article explores the first era of tourism development in Latin America, focusing on the historical scholarship and methodologies that have best helped us to understand tourisms relationship to the growth and expansion of economic and cultural frontiers that accompanied the evolution of North American empire from the early 1840s until 1959. Recent scholarship makes a strong connection between tourists, economic frontiers, and the establishmen…
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window: A Tale of Two Borderlands, 1960-1975
Packaged Vacations: Tourism development in the Spanish Caribbean
This book provides analytical insight into the evolution of today's principal tourism destinations in the Spanish Caribbean. It examines the political and economic forces that led to the creation of resorts in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, as well as the impact tourism has had on local environments, economies, and cultures. By comparing and contrasting a number of case studies, the book reveals how historical, political, …
Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945-2005
Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
Journal Article Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975 Get access Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975. By Ward Evan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Humboldt State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
The environmental history of the Colorado River delta during the past century is one of the most important and most neglected stories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Thanks to entrepreneurs such as William E. Smythe, the surrounding desert in Arizona, California, Sonora, and Baja California has been transformed into an agricultural oasis, but not without significant ecological, political, economic, and social consequences. Evan Ward explores the …
Geo-Environmental Disconnection and the Colorado River Delta: Technology, Culture, and the Political Ecology of Paradise
This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century. The author posits technological advances, affluence, geographic distance from the river itself, and prevalent Newtonian attitudes towards the landscape as the principal reasons for these geo-environmental disconnections. Politically, the competition between municipal, agricultural, and tourist-related ac…
Footprints, Frontiers, and Empires: Latin American Tourism Development, 1840–1959
This article explores the first era of tourism development in Latin America, focusing on the historical scholarship and methodologies that have best helped us to understand tourisms relationship to the growth and expansion of economic and cultural frontiers that accompanied the evolution of North American empire from the early 1840s until 1959. Recent scholarship makes a strong connection between tourists, economic frontiers, and the establishmen…
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
Journal Article Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975 Get access Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975. By Ward Evan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Humboldt State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Geo-Environmental Disconnection and the Colorado River Delta: Technology, Culture, and the Political Ecology of Paradise
This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century. The author posits technological advances, affluence, geographic distance from the river itself, and prevalent Newtonian attitudes towards the landscape as the principal reasons for these geo-environmental disconnections. Politically, the competition between municipal, agricultural, and tourist-related ac…
Geo-Environmental Disconnection and the Colorado River Delta: Technology, Culture, and the Political Ecology of Paradise
This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century. The author posits technological advances, affluence, geographic distance from the river itself, and prevalent Newtonian attitudes towards the landscape as the principal reasons for these geo-environmental disconnections. Politically, the competition between municipal, agricultural, and tourist-related ac…
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
The environmental history of the Colorado River delta during the past century is one of the most important and most neglected stories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Thanks to entrepreneurs such as William E. Smythe, the surrounding desert in Arizona, California, Sonora, and Baja California has been transformed into an agricultural oasis, but not without significant ecological, political, economic, and social consequences. Evan Ward explores the …
Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975
Journal Article Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975 Get access Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975. By Ward Evan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Sterling Evans Sterling Evans Humboldt State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida
Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945-2005
Packaged Vacations: Tourism development in the Spanish Caribbean
This book provides analytical insight into the evolution of today's principal tourism destinations in the Spanish Caribbean. It examines the political and economic forces that led to the creation of resorts in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, as well as the impact tourism has had on local environments, economies, and cultures. By comparing and contrasting a number of case studies, the book reveals how historical, political, …
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window: A Tale of Two Borderlands, 1960-1975
Footprints, Frontiers, and Empires: Latin American Tourism Development, 1840–1959
This article explores the first era of tourism development in Latin America, focusing on the historical scholarship and methodologies that have best helped us to understand tourisms relationship to the growth and expansion of economic and cultural frontiers that accompanied the evolution of North American empire from the early 1840s until 1959. Recent scholarship makes a strong connection between tourists, economic frontiers, and the establishmen…
Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico
While historians in general consider the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as the crucial turning point in modern Mexican history, they continue to debate to what degree that decade-long conflict represented fundamental change or continuity in the twentieth-century trajectory of the nation's political and economic institutions. The emergence of environmental history in the past 30 years offers another vantage point for assessing this question. Chris…
Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire
At the turn of the twenty-first century, Dennis Merrill published his pioneering work on tourism and international relations, “Negotiating Cold War Paradise: US Tourism, Economic Planning, and Cultural Modernity in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico,” in Diplomatic History (2001). A flourish of books on tourism development and international relations, including monographs by Merrill (Negotiating Paradise: US Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Lat…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Tourism Planning, Afro-Colombian Society and Community in Barú, Colombia
This article builds upon the scholarship of Alina Helg and other historians working on questions of racial identity in Colombia, and the Caribbean section of that country more specifically. Colombia is unique in that its identity is indigenous, African, as well as European. Its Afro-Colombian elements are often overlooked by virtue of the mestizo identity that has dominated settlement of its Andean highlands around the capital, Bogota. Using tech…
Before Dubai: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Iranian tourism development, 1967–1969
This essay examines the transcultural vision of Neezam Amery and William Wesley Peters (of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) in conceptualising touristscapes for Minoo and Kish Islands. It emphasises the hybrid approach of the architects in appealing at one and the same time to Arab and Western tourists, the staggering environmental costs of such an undertaking, and the role that contemporary tourism in Beirut played in shaping their vision for …
Mark Rice. Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru
A volume that is long overdue in the history of Latin American and global tourism, Mark Rice’s Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru takes its place among a recent number of solidly grounded regional studies that highlight the outsize influence of leisure on national identity and development. Like Lisa Pinley Covert’s San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site (2017), Rice’s stud…
An Entrepot for Tourism’: From developmental tourism to gateway travel in Singapore, 1937–2019
This article narrates Singaporean tourism development vis-à-vis conventional hotel-based and expensive public relations campaign models of tourism development championed by Western multi-lateral and private institutions in the postcolonial period. Using documents from the National Archives of Singapore, this article contends that Singapore opted for an infrastructure-led, aviation-based tourism development model, which culminated in the creation …
Blake C. Scott. Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism
Journal Article Blake C. Scott. Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism. Get access Blake C. Scott. Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. 258. Paper $29.95. Evan Ward Evan Ward Brigham Young University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Page 789, https://doi.org/10.…
Desarrollo agrícola y acuerdos políticos en el norte de México: Los centros de contratación del Programa Bracero, 1947-1964
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