Arthur Young's Travels in France
Author : Arthur Young
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Arthur Young
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Alice Garner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501727206
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. She explores how fishermen and women resisted developments that threatened their livelihood or their particular sense of belonging, and 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.
Author : Etienne Ader, Commissaire-Priseur
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Alice Garner
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780522852783
A memoir of the author's university years, which tells the story of share-house dramas, the entanglements and the debates which characterised her student years, and also describes the challenges of striking out alone.
Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198205364
In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or bequeath at will. By the eighteenthcentury there were 70,000 venal offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing returns to theking, offices were more in demand than ever for the privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices could ever be bought out. The Revolutionbrought an unexpected opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe, has written the first comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to the workings of state and society in France for over threecenturies.
Author : Etienne Ader, Commissaire-Priseur
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Etienne Ader, Commissaire-Priseur
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Albert Berthel
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
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Author : Etienne Ader, Commissaire-Priseur
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1970
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