UID:
almafu_9961152686902883
Format:
1 online resource (305 pages)
ISBN:
1-5017-7354-2
,
1-5017-6303-2
Series Statement:
Histories and Cultures of Tourism
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Harp, Stephen L. The Riviera, Exposed Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2022 ISBN 9781501763021
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501763021
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501763021
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501763021
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