Cold War holidays
Subtitle: American tourism in France
By: Christopher Endy.
Series: The new Cold War history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century.; Americans -- Travel -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Consumerism, the Cold War, and globalization; title: Rationed pleasure : leisure before and after the war; title: Fellow travelers : the rise of tourism in U.S. foreign policy; title: Radiance or colonization? : French divisions over American tourism; title: Making France safe for middle-class Americans : the Marshall Plan and the French hotel industry; title: Pleasure with a purpose : the struggle to create an Atlantic community; title: The ugly American : the travel boom and the debate over mass culture; title: The rude French : modernity and hospitality in De Gaulle's France; title: The dollar challenge : the persistence of consumerism in the 1960s.