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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828652203321

Autore

Endy Christopher

Titolo

Cold War holidays : American tourism in France / / Christopher Endy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908776-6-6

0-8078-6351-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

The new Cold War history

Disciplina

338.4/791440483

Soggetti

Tourism - France - History - 20th century

Americans - Travel - France - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Consumerism, the Cold War, and globalization -- Rationed pleasure : leisure before and after the war -- Fellow travelers : the rise of tourism in U.S. foreign policy -- Radiance or colonization? : French divisions over American tourism -- Making France safe for middle-class Americans -- French hotel industry -- Pleasure with a purpose : the struggle to create an Atlantic community -- The ugly American : the travel boom and the debate over mass culture -- The rude French : modernity and hospitality in De Gaulle's France -- The dollar challenge : the persistence of consumerism in the 1960s.

Sommario/riassunto

Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War-era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism. Focusing on American travel in France after World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how both the U.S. and French governments actively cultivated and shaped leisure travel to advance their foreign policy agendas.