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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Susan C.

Tabb, Bruce H., 1959-

Series:

Leisure, consumption, and culture 1468-571X

Leisure, consumption, and culture, 1468-571X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water use--Europe--History.

Water use.

Water--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Water.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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.

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

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350049031

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.