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Cold War holidays [[electronic resource] ] : American tourism in France / / Christopher Endy



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Autore: Endy Christopher Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cold War holidays [[electronic resource] ] : American tourism in France / / Christopher Endy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina: 338.4/791440483
Soggetto topico: Tourism - France - History - 20th century
Americans - Travel - France - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Cold War holidays  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-6351-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451869803321
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Serie: New Cold War history.