The Riviera, exposed : an ecohistory of postwar tourism and North African labor /

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"This history of the French Riviera examines the ecological and social impacts of mass tourism after World War II. Much of the focus is on the technologies embedded in roads, airports, hotels, water lines, sewers, beaches, and marinas, as well as the North African laborers who built and maintai...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Harp, Stephen L. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Collection:Histories and cultures of tourism.
Sujets:
1900-1999
Tourism > France > Riviera > History > 20th century.
Tourism > Environmental aspects > France > Riviera.
Foreign workers, African > France > Riviera > History > 20th century.
North Africans > France > Riviera > Social conditions > 20th century.
Travailleurs étrangers africains > France > Côte d'Azur > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Maghrébins > France > Côte d'Azur > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / France
Foreign workers, African.
North Africans > Social conditions.
Tourism.
Tourism > Environmental aspects.
Riviera (France) > History > 20th century.
Côte d'Azur (France) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
France > Riviera.
history of tourism, french riviera tourism after world war II, tourism's impact on environment, trente glorieuses, impacts of modern travel.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : The Hidden Riviera
  • Building Hotels and Housing for the Rich and the Rest
  • Reconstructing the Riviera, Sleeping in Squats and Shantytowns
  • Providing Potable Water and WCs
  • Fattening Up Beaches and Polluting the Mediterranean
  • Erecting an Airport and Living with Jet Planes
  • Remaking Roads and Disciplining Drivers
  • Epilogue : The More Things Change.

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