Jeff Wiltse: 1 book
Contested Waters
A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
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...
