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

Wiltse, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080783100X ISBN 13: 9780807831007

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080783100X
• ISBN 13: 9780807831007
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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