Cold War holidays [electronic resource] : American tourism in France / Christopher Endy.
By: Endy, Christopher.
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BookSeries: New Cold War history: Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004Description: xii, 286 p. : ill.Subject(s): Tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century | Americans -- Travel -- France -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.4/791440483 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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 -- 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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