Water, leisure and culture : European historical perspectives / edited by Susan C. Anderson and Bruce H. Tabb.

Other author Anderson, Susan C.
Other author Tabb, Bruce H., 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
Descriptionx, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Water use--Europe. --History.
Water--Social aspects. --Europe. --History.

Cover title Water, leisure & culture
SeriesLeisure, consumption and culture
Leisure, consumption, and culture. ^A568669
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-258) and index.
LCCN 2002007245
ISBN1859735355 (cloth)
ISBN1859735401 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GB720 .W38 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold