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War Tourism : Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage /

"This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gordon, Bertram M., 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war
  • The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque
  • Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiegne railway car
  • French tourism in their occupied country
  • German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944
  • The liberation, 1944 : Normandy and Paris
  • Sites of memory and the tourist imaginary
  • Tourism, war, and memory in postwar France
  • Conclusion : tourism and appropriate remembrance.