Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America [Audiobook] download free by Jeff Wiltse
- Listen audiobook: Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
- Author: Jeff Wiltse
- Release date: 2010/10/8
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Sports
- ISBN: 9780807871270
- Rating: 9.22 of 10
- Votes: 312
- Review by: Melania Layton
- Review rating: 8.82 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/4
- Duration: 3H34M21S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPEG4, OGG, WAV, FLAC (compression TZO, LZMA, ZIP, IMG, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M40S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: This title presents a story of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure. 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Swimming & Diving, Sports Books, Social & Cultural History, History Of The Americas, Black & Asian Studies
- Download servers: Copiapop, FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, Your Bittorrent, 4Shared, Google Drive, MEGA, Mediafire, FreakShare, Depositfiles. Compressed in TZO, LZMA, ZIP, IMG, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 25.00 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x22.86mm
- Weight: 408.23g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Chapel Hill, United States
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