The Riviera, exposed an ecohistory of postwar tourism and North African labor
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 --...
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Ithaca, London
Cornell University Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | Histories and cultures of tourism
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. A sweeping social and environmental history, this book illuminates the profound changes to the physical space that we know as the quintessential European tourist destination. Stephen L. Harp uncovers the behind-the-scenes impact of tourism following World War II, both on the environment and on the people living and working on the Riviera, particularly North African laborers, who not only did much of the literal rebuilding of the Riviera but also suffered in that process. Outside of Paris, the Riviera has been the most visited region in France, depending almost exclusively on tourism as its economic lifeline. Until recently, we knew a great deal about the tourists but much less about the social and environmental impacts of their activities or about the life stories of the North African workers upon whom the Riviera's prosperity rests. The technologies embedded in roads, airports, hotels, water lines, sewers, beaches, and marinas all required human intervention – and travelers were encouraged to disregard this intervention. Harp's sharp analysis explores the impacts of massive construction and public works projects, revealing the invisible infrastructure of tourism, its environmental effects, and the immigrants who built the Riviera. This book unearths a gritty history, one of human labor and ecological degradation that forms the true foundation of the glamorous Riviera of tourist mythology. |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register |
| Beschreibung: | xxii, 276 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781501763014 978-1-5017-6301-4 9781501773549 978-1-5017-7354-9 |