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
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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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.