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Ellen Furlough

Research Interests:
Modern France and Europe; tourism; consumer cultures
Selected Publications:

She has published Consumer Cooperation in France: The Politics of Consumption, 1830-1920 (Cornell University Press 1991). She also completed an edited collection (with Carl Strikwerda) Consumers against Capitalism?  Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990 (1999), as well as another edited collection with Shelley Baranowski: Being Elsewhere:  Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe and North America (2002).

Her published articles include “Making Mass Vacations:  Tourism and Consumer Culture in France, 1930s to 1970s" in Comparative Studies in Society and History (April 1998). Other articles published in French Historical Studies, notably on Club Méditerranée, have been extensively cited. Her interest in French Indochina is evident in her article “Une leçon des choses:  Tourism, Empire, and the Nation in Interwar France” French Historical Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3, summer 2002. She also presented a paper in April 2006 at the Society for French Historical studies Annual Meeting entitled “Revisiting ‘Imperial Eyes’: Tourism in French Colonial Indochina.”