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Parlor ponds : the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / Judith Hamera.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamera, Judith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aquariums--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Aquariums.
- Aquariums--United States--History.
- Aquariums--United States--Historiography.
- Aquariums--Great Britain--Historiography.
- Home--United States--History.
- Home.
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium.
- Contents:
- Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium
- Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing
- The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915
- Toy Fish
- The Domestic Aquarium
- "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium
- Conclusion: Reefer Madness.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613436863
- 9781283436861
- 1283436868
- 9780472028108
- 0472028103
- OCLC:
- 777558487
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.1070693
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