A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000

by Alice Garner

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801442826

ISBN13:9780801442827

Release Date:December 2004

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Cultural Europe France History Human Geography Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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