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Dark Allure of the Côte d'Azur: Beauty, Leisure and Violence on the French Riviera Since the Eighteenth Century

Dark Allure of the Côte d'Azur: Beauty, Leisure and Violence on the French Riviera Since the Eighteenth Century

Bryant, Raymond Leslie

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3111449742
ISBN13: 9783111449746
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Jan 27 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is the first critical work on the history of the French Riviera from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day in the English language. It makes the argument that multi-faceted power and violence - war, murder, land dispossession and other privations targeted at the poor, imperialism and ecological degradation (land, sea, rivers and air) - has been integral to the making of the Côte d'Azur. Invariably, this has been downplayed in previous general histories that tend to focus on the personal lives and loves of famous outsiders. In effect, the complex general history of the place is rarely told. Bryant seeks to set that record straight in an innovative work crisscrossing the borders of European and imperial history, geography, politics and environmental studies that will be of interest to an array of scholars, students and general readers who wish to learn about how the planet's most famous coastal resort was made.

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