Cold War holidays : American tourism in France /
by Endy, Christopher.
Series: The new Cold War history. Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004Description: xii, 286 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0807828718 (alk. paper); 0807855480 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Americans -- History -- Travel -- 20th century. -- France | Tourism -- History -- 20th century. -- FranceOnline resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.
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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