Shifting Currents : A World History of Swimming
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| Autore: |
Carr Karen Eva
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| Titolo: |
Shifting Currents : A World History of Swimming
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , 2022 |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (456 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 797.2109 |
| Soggetto topico: | Swimming - History |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Learning to Swim -- 1. Once Everyone Could Swim -- 2. Leaving Africa -- 3. A Northern Swimming Hole -- 4. Danger, Sex, Gods and Strangers -- 5. Learning to Swim -- 6. Ancient Greece and Rome -- 7. Soldiers and Divers -- Part II: Forgetting How to Swim -- 8. Medieval Asia -- 9. Medieval Europe -- 10. Central Asian Power -- 11. A Famous Drowning -- 12. The Little Ice Age -- Part III: Still Swimming -- 13. African Swimmers -- 14. In the Americas -- 15. China and the Pacific Ocean -- 16. Floating for Witchcraft -- 17. Ducking Stools -- Part IV: Changing Places -- 18. The Avant-garde -- 19. The Middle Class -- 20. Out with the Old, In with the New -- 21. Swimming is So Last Century -- 22. Everyone Out of the Water -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- References -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shifting Currents |
| ISBN: | 9781789145779 |
| 9781789145786 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811630703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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