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Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Jeff Wiltse
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Description for Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Paperback. Presents a story of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure. This title 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. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; WSSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
This title presents a story of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure. 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.
This title presents a story of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure. 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807871270
SKU
V9780807871270
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About Jeff Wiltse
Jeff Wiltse is assistant professor of history at the University of Montana.
Reviews for Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
"[Contested Waters is] the colorful story of America's municipal swimming pools... [and] a story of America. It's all here: a sense of this country's benevolence, its community relations, civic wars, social strata, sexuality and sexism as well as our capacity for having a good time. Chronicled along with these are our ill-feeling prejudice, ignorance and racial strife.... [Contested Waters offers] ... Read more