War tourism : Second World War France from defeat and occupation to the creation of heritage /

War tourism : Second World War France from defeat and occupation to the creation of heritage /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gordon, Bertram M., 1945- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (x, 307 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century. Germans -- Travel -- France -- History -- 20th century. Dark tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century. Heritage tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 -- France. War and society -- France -- History -- 20th century. Collective memory -- France -- History -- 20th century. Collective memory. Dark tourism. Germans -- Travel. Heritage tourism. Tourism. War and society. France. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12483741

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ISBN:	9781501715891 1501715895 9781501715884 1501715887 9781501715877 1501715879 9781501715877
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2019).
Summary:	"This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"--
Other form:	Print version: Gordon, Bertram M., 1945- War tourism. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501715877

Table of Contents:

Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war
The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque
Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiègne railway car
French tourism in their occupied country
German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944
The liberation, 1944 : Normandy and Paris
Sites of memory and the tourist imaginary
Tourism, war, and memory in postwar France
Conclusion : tourism and appropriate remembrance.