 | A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000 Subjects: Arcachon (France) -- History -- 19th century; Arcachon (France) -- History -- 20th century; Arcachon (France) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Arcachon (France) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Arcachon Basin (France); 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. Alice Garner is a Research Fellow of the History Department, University of Melbourne. She is also a professional actor and musician. |
