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The Frontier of Leisure. Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America.
Lawrence Culver
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Paperback. The Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's tourist resorts and residential recreation influenced the nation, from ranch houses and the landscape of postwar suburbia to relations of labor and race, and the place of nature in everyday life. Num Pages: 336 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 466.
Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United ... Read more
Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199891924
SKU
V9780199891924
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About Lawrence Culver
Lawrence Culver is AssociateProfessor of History at Utah State University.
Reviews for The Frontier of Leisure. Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America.
A new edition of a lavish three volume homage to American Jewish architectural photographer Julius Shulman serves as a reminder of how much modern West Coast Jewish architects relied on image makers to promote and preserve their work.
Benjamin Ivry, Forward.com
Beach tans, bungalows, and the California dream drive historian Culver's smart and insightful exploration of the region's ... Read more
Benjamin Ivry, Forward.com
Beach tans, bungalows, and the California dream drive historian Culver's smart and insightful exploration of the region's ... Read more