Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807871273
ISBN-13
9780807871270
Edition
New
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint
The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 2010
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
399 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.40 x 2.20 cms
Ksh 4,500.00
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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.
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.
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