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Water, leisure and culture : European historical perspectives

Title: Water, leisure and culture : European historical perspectives / edited by Susan C. Anderson and Bruce H. Tabb.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2002.

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Description

x, 272 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

This text addresses how using water for relaxation intersects with ideas about class, gender, nationality and consumption. It explores the ways Europeans have turned to water for pleasure, relaxation and profit over the last 200 years.

Series Statement

Leisure, consumption, and culture, 1468-571X

Uniform Title

Leisure, consumption, and culture.

Alternative Title

Water, leisure & culture

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-258) and index.

Contents

The Pleasure of taking the waters / Susan C. Anderson -- Fashionable spa towns in nineteenth-century Europe / David Blackbourn -- The Culture of the water cure in nineteenth-century Austria, 1800-1914 / Jill Steward -- The Waters of San Sebastián: therapy, health, pleasure and identity, 1840-1936 / John K. Walton -- The Thrill of frozen water: class, gender and ice-skating in the Netherlands, 1600-1900 / Jan Hein Furnee -- The Finnish sauna and its Finnishness / Pekka Leimu -- Seaside visitors: idlers, thinkers and patriots in mid-nineteenth-century Britain / Christiana Payne -- A Sound mind in a sound body: bathing in the Sweden / Michelle Facos -- The Ideological, aesthetic and ecological significance of water in twentieth-century German garden design / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- The Thermenpalast (thermal palace): an outstanding German water-leisure project from the 1920's / Gert Groning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Hungarian spas / Terri Switzer -- Water recreation resources and environmental pressures along Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast / Vassil Marinov, Boian Koulov -- Water and leisure in Moldova: a social perspective / Maria Vodenska -- Water, culture and leisure: from spas to beach tourism in Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margarita Dritas -- Rimini and Costa Smeralda: how social values shape recreational sites / Patrizia Battilani -- Vacationing of France's Côte d'Azur, 1950-2000 / Andre Rauch.

ISBN

1859735355
9781859735350
1859735401
9781859735404

LCCN

2002007245

OCLC

ocm49773743
49773743
SCSB-1270312

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library