Contested waters a social history of swimming pools in America /
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| Formatua: | Baliabide elektronikoa eBook |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2007.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Aurkibidea:
- Introduction : "just don't touch the water"
- A "peculiar kind" of bath : the origin of municipal pools in America
- "A means of physical culture" : the redefinition of municipal pools during the 1890s
- "A good investment in health, character, and citizenship" : municipal swimming pools in the Progressive Era
- Interlude : the traumatic early history of Fairgrounds Park Pool
- The "swimming pool age" : 1920 to 1940
- "One for the white race and the other for the colored race" : the onset of racial discrimination, 1920 to 1940
- "More sensitive than schools" : the struggle to desegregate municipal swimming pools
- "Alone in the backyard" : swimming pools in recent America
- Conclusion : the promise and reality of swimming pools as public spaces.