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A Shifting Shore : Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000 /

"Drawing on guidebooks, newspapers, bylaws, engineers' reports, medical pamphlets, postcards, and the accounts of literary-minded holidaymakers, Garner shows how investors and developers transformed Arcachon and its community."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Garner, Alice, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Hideous virginity, or beautiful maps on Annonay paper
  • 2. A site of contention : the Pres Sales of La Teste
  • 3. To suspend the ocean
  • 4. Oceano Nox
  • 5. An emotional tableau
  • 6. Movement and life : the Bordeaux-La Teste railway line
  • 7. The Pacific conquests of hygiene
  • 8. Whistles and pickets, or dejecta of all sorts
  • 9. A magnificent panorama
  • 10. Posing for posterity
  • Epilogue : other occupations.