Description |
1 online resource (x, 307 pages) |
Contents |
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 Compiègne 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 |
Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
Analysis |
Hitler, World War II France, postwar memory tourism, humanize war, Popular Front legislation of 1936 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2019) |
Subject |
Tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Germans -- Travel -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Dark tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Heritage tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France.
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War and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Collective memory -- France -- History -- 20th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Collective memory
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Dark tourism
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Germans -- Travel
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Heritage tourism
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Tourism
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War and society
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France
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2018018664 |
ISBN |
9781501715891 |
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1501715895 |
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1501715879 |
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9781501715877 |
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