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Contested waters : a social history of swimming pools in America
- Title
- Contested waters : a social history of swimming pools in America / Jeff Wiltse.
- Author
- Wiltse, Jeff.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
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- Description
- x, 276 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 07-321
- ISBN
- 9780807831007 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080783100X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006031021
- OCLC
- 71581761
- Author
- Wiltse, Jeff.
- Title
- Contested waters : a social history of swimming pools in America / Jeff Wiltse.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 07-321