A Shifting Shore : Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000 / Alice Garner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe.

Arcachon Basin (France).

Arcachon (France)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Arcachon (France).

Arcachon (France)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Arcachon (France)--History--20th century.

Arcachon (France)--History--19th century.

Local Subjects:

Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How does tourism transform fishing communities into vibrant resorts, working shores into bathing beaches? In A Shifting Shore, 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.Rather 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.Exploring 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. A Shifting Shore, while anchored in Arcachon and La Teste, has much to contribute to a nuanced understanding of relations between hosts and guests in any community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps

Introduction

PART I. THE COLONIZING IMPULSE

1. Hideous Virginity, or Beautiful Maps on Annonay Paper

2. A Site of Contention: The Pres Sales of La Teste

3. To Suspend the Ocean

4. Oceano Nox

PART II. TAMING THE SHORE

5. An Emotional Tableau

6. Movement and Life: The Bordeaux-La Teste Railway Line

7. The Pacific Conquests of Hygiene

8. Whistles and Pickets, or Dejecta of All Sorts

9. A Magnificent Panorama

10. Posing for Posterity

Epilogue: Other Occupations

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-273) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-2720-6

OCLC:

1080549884