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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456369803321

Autore

Wiltse Jeff

Titolo

Contested waters [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of swimming pools in America / / Jeff Wiltse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0466-3

0-8078-8898-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/81

Soggetti

Swimming pools - Social aspects - United States

Swimming pools - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393025803316

Autore

Collier Thomas <fl. 1691.>

Titolo

Certaine queries [[electronic resource] ] : or, Points now in controvercy examined, and answered by Scripture, for the satisfaction of all those that desire information in the truth. By an unworthy servant of Christ, Thomas Colyer. 1. What are the materialls of a true Church of Christ? 2. What is the forme of a true Church? 3. What is the discipline and government thereof? 4. What power the civill magistrate has to establish Church-government?

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : s.n.], Printed in the yeere 1645

Descrizione fisica

[2], 29, [1] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Place of publication from Wing.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 24th".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018