For decades scholars in diverse fields have examined problems in the history of mobility. Their diversity was their strength but also their limitation, as disciplinary boundaries impeded the exchange of ideas that lets scholarship flourish. Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a free-trade zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in a now-flourishing field.

This collection of essays on ’Road History’ is the result of a workshop co-organized by the Mobility History Group within the Tensions of Europe research program and the COST 340 network, both sponsored by European research funds. They reflect the increasing interest among both historians of technology and historians of transport, mobility and tourism in national and transnational road construction history as a part of understanding wider issues of national and international politics.

A partir du XIXe siècle, l’hôtellerie parisienne devient une véritable industrie, portée par l’essor du tourisme et le développement des voyages, mais aussi par l’embellissement haussmannien, les Expositions Universelles et les grands travaux de la Ve République.

Comment le tourisme est-il devenu l’industrie que l’on connaît aujourd’hui ? Du tourisme des nazis et de l’Union soviétique au sea, sex, sand and sun... ce livre analyse ces divers aspects dans une perspective internationale.