A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000

Alice Garner

Published by Cornell University Press 2004

A Shifting Shore

Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000

Alice Garner

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727207

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Alice Garner is a Research Fellow of the History Department, University of Melbourne. She is also a professional actor and musician.

Reviews

Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University:

This meticulously researched and well-written book joins a growing genre that charts the deep history of leisure activities and tourism. A Shifting Shore will be of great interest to environmental historians seeking to evaluate the constraints nature places on the fondest hopes of developers, the human conflicts generated by the transmutation of space, and the policies of governments that promote 'progress.' Alice Garner provides a classic account undoubtedly replicated in virtually all tourist areas, where people on each side-locals and outsiders-realize that they can't live with or without the others. Garner's discussion of postcards is a delightful excursion into the realm of visual representations, for here are the locals doing their things and there are the holidaymakers doing theirs, especially on the beach among their umbrellas.

Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky:

A Shifting Shore is an engaging and persuasive account of the historical transformation of the southern shore of the Bassin d'Arcachon from a fishing community to a popular seaside resort. We learn how the cultural values, social practices, and individual actions of developers, engineers, men and women within the local fishing community, and tourists variously shaped and contested the meanings and uses of this particular locale. The result is a remarkable book, enlivened by splendid prose, that conveys a rich and textured history of Arcachon as 'lived space' while remaining acutely aware of the influence of forces of change and continuity occurring elsewhere in France.

John K. Walton:

Recent 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, A Shifting Shore, still shed indispensable additional light.

Susan Carol Rogers:

A 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.

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. THE COLONIZING IMPULSE
1. Hideous Virginity, or Beautiful Maps on Annonay Paper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. A Site of Contention: The Pres Sales of La Teste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. To Suspend the Ocean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. Oceano Nox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II. TAMING THE SHORE
5. An Emotional Tableau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. Movement and Life: The Bordeaux-La Teste Railway Line Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7. The Pacific Conquests of Hygiene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
8. Whistles and Pickets, or Dejecta of All Sorts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
9. A Magnificent Panorama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
10. Posing for Posterity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Epilogue: Other Occupations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 1 map, 32 halftones
Keywords: Europe; History

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501727207