| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"How does tourism transform fishing communities into vibrant resorts, working shores into bathing beaches? In A Shifting Shore, Alice Garner traces the ways fisherfolk, bathers, investors, and engineers understood, claimed, and remade the shores of the Bassin d'Arcachon, a prime fishing and oyster-farming site in southwestern France, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Garner's interest in the coastline - a zone that resists all attempts at definition - shapes this generously illustrated book. Rather than taking a straightforward chronological approach to the settlement and evolution of the towns of Arcachon and La Teste, Garner investigates the development of the Bassin d'Arcachon's southern shores with the aim of recovering something of the "lived space" experienced by locals and visitors." |
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"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Economic history
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Tourismus
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Visserij.
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Sociaal-economische verandering.
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Badplaatsen (recreatie)
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Toerisme.
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| SUBJECT |
Arcachon (France) -- History -- 19th century
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Arcachon (France) -- History -- 20th century
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Arcachon (France) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
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Arcachon (France) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Arcachon Basin (France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006481
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France -- Arcachon
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France -- Arcachon Basin
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Bucht von Arcachon
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Arcachon.
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Bassin d'Arcachon.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004015588 |
| ISBN |
9781501727207 |
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1501727206 |
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