Contested waters a social history of swimming pools in America /

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主要作者: Wiltse, Jeff
企业作者: ebrary, Inc
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
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书本目录:
  • 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.