Posted by Saskia Cousin
two new publications found on the website of the journal Spaces
www.revue-espaces.com
Tourism in the French empire. Policies, practices and
imaginary (XIX - XX centuries) Collective (edited by Colette
Zytnicki Habib Kazdaghli) SFHOM Editions (French Society of History Overseas)
Juin 2009 - 440 pages- EUR 40.00 (paper)
ISBN: 978-285-9700-416
The imperial past is back in the field of historical studies
. But it is an area little explored by
specialists question: tourism. However, activity
tourism is far from being confined to the margins of companies
imperial as "sounding a settlement which
travelers are invited to see the benefits and sing
the glory once back in France. "
This collective work, which is a collaboration between former
Tunisian and French researchers, is opening a field
historiographical nine. Most of the contributions (thirty,
total) deal with the colonial Maghreb. Indochina and the Middle East
placed under French mandate, are also discussed, as well as
Meeting and Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparison with
Italian and English empires is outlined.
. But it is an area little explored by
specialists question: tourism. However, activity
tourism is far from being confined to the margins of companies
imperial as "sounding a settlement which
travelers are invited to see the benefits and sing
the glory once back in France. "
This collective work, which is a collaboration between former
Tunisian and French researchers, is opening a field
historiographical nine. Most of the contributions (thirty,
total) deal with the colonial Maghreb. Indochina and the Middle East
placed under French mandate, are also discussed, as well as
Meeting and Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparison with
Italian and English empires is outlined.
Coconuts France. Tourist overseas Jean-Christophe Gay
Collection Belin Sup Tourism
Editions Belin
Octobre 2009 - 130 pages
EUR 23.50 (paper)
"State of Emergency" "crisis", "decline", "worrying situation" are
many words and phrases used to characterize the tourism
ultramarine today.
This book, which comes at a particularly difficult
tourism economy ultramarine, attempts to shed light this "free fall
", especially by studying how these countries are
administered by the state. The author highlights the springs,
essentially political, which control the production of space
tourist overseas. It shows: that tourism holds in
relationship between places and dominated by state actors, it is
also the result of both practices common to all
tourists and specific the French overseas or city. In
beyond this unit, it also assumes that the issue of
statutes of these countries, which regulate their operation and
relationship to the state, is particularly efficient for a variable
enter either the Tourist ultramarine but, through their
systems and their spaces.
