{"product_id":"a-shifting-shore-locals-outsiders-and-the-transformation-of-a-french-fishing-town-1823-2000-hardback-9780801442827","title":"A Shifting Shore; Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000 (Hardback) 9780801442827","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Shifting Shore\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLocals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlice Garner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801442827\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 December 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating contribution to tourism studies. This careful examination of the transformation of one fishing community into a beach resort provides an empirically well-grounded basis for fruitful comparisons about the history and dynamics of European tourism.\u003c\/p\u003e - Susan Carol Rogers (Journal of Modern History) \u003cp\u003eRecent research in tourism studies has generated more convincing comparative understandings of the changing nature of resort destinations and processes at work in periods of transition, but the distinctive contribution of historians, as in Alice Garner's elegant, evocative, and nuanced study of the local and external influences on the French resort of Arcachon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, \u003ci\u003eA Shifting Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, still shed indispensable additional light.\u003c\/p\u003e - John K. Walton (The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does tourism transform fishing communities into vibrant resorts, working shores into bathing beaches? In \u003ci\u003eA Shifting Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice Garner traces the ways fisherfolk, bathers, investors, and engineers understood, claimed, and remade the shores of the Bassin d'Arcachon, a prime fishing and oyster-farming site in southwestern France, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Garner's interest in the coastline—a zone that resists all attempts at definition—shapes this generously illustrated book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRather than taking a straightforward chronological approach to the settlement and evolution of the towns of Arcachon and La Teste, Garner investigates the development of the Bassin d'Arcachon's southern shores with the aim of recovering something of the \"lived space\" experienced by locals and visitors. Drawing on guidebooks, newspapers, bylaws, engineers' reports, medical pamphlets, postcards, and the accounts of literary-minded holidaymakers, Garner shows how investors and developers transformed Arcachon and its community—beaches were rezoned and jetties constructed to favor bathers, and a new railway line brought ever-increasing numbers of visitors to the area.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring how fishermen and women resisted developments that threatened their livelihood or their particular sense of belonging, she also shows how they adapted to the changing environment and to their new roles as guides and entertainers. \u003ci\u003eA Shifting Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, while anchored in Arcachon and La Teste, has much to contribute to a nuanced understanding of relations between hosts and guests in any community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742526959896,"sku":"9780801442827","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-shifting-shore-locals-outsiders-and-the-transformation-of-a-french-fishing-town-1823-2000-hardback-9780801442827","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}