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Author Harp, Stephen L., author.

Title The Riviera, exposed : an ecohistory of postwar tourism and North African labor / Stephen L. Harp ; foreword by Eric G. E. Zuelow
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Series Histories and cultures of tourism
Histories and cultures of tourism.
Contents 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
Summary "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 maintained them"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis history of tourism, french riviera tourism after world war II, tourism's impact on environment, trente glorieuses, impacts of modern travel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2022)
Subject 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
HISTORY / Europe / France
Foreign workers, African
North Africans -- Social conditions
Tourism
Tourism -- Environmental aspects
SUBJECT Riviera (France) -- History -- 20th century
Subject France -- Riviera
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021036795
ISBN 9781501763038
1501763032
9781501763021
1501763024