Cold War holidays : American tourism in France

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

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Endy, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Series:New Cold War history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Tourism > France > History > 20th century.
Americans > Travel > France > History > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
Americans > Travel
Tourism
Toerisme.
Amerikanen.
France
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 : the Marshall Plan and the 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.

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