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Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Jeff Wiltse
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| #182573 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 2010-05-01 | 2010-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x.72 x5.80l,.86 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Highly recommend|By Kent Price|As a swimmer since the early 1940's in the Washington DC area, I could relate to the segredation stories in this book. I highly recommend this unorthodox history.|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Bringing History Alive|By Jay R. Goerke|This is a must read for every teen or adult|From Publishers Weekly|Historian Wiltse offers a detailed study of the history of municipal swimming pools from the late 19th century through the present, tracing their development from bare-bones baths for the working classes to elegant, "sylvan" recreational s
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 r...
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