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Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America - Softcover

Wiltse, Jeff

 
9780807871270: Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807871273 ISBN 13: 9780807871270
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.

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Jeff Wiltse is assistant professor of history at the University of Montana.

Aus dem Klappentext

From 19th-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the U.S., Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807871273
ISBN 13 
9780807871270
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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