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The frontier of leisure : Southern California and the shaping of modern America / Lawrence Culver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Culver, Lawrence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--California, Southern--History.
- Leisure.
- Recreation--California, Southern--History.
- Recreation.
- Leisure--Southwest, New--History.
- Recreation--Southwest, New--History.
- California, Southern--History.
- California, Southern.
- California, Southern--Social life and customs.
- Southwest, New--Social life and customs.
- Southwest, New.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Southern California and the shaping of modern America
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this ""culture of leisure"" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The View from Fantasyland to Main Street, U.S.A.; Chapter One: INVENTING THE FRONTIER OF LEISURE: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Creation of the "Great Southwest"; Chapter Two: THE CITY OF LEISURE: The Contested History of Public Recreation in Los Angeles; Chapter Three: THE ISLAND OF LEISURE: Tourism and the Transformation of Santa Catalina Island, 1887-1919; Chapter Four: "IN ALL THE WORLD NO TRIP LIKE THIS": Santa Catalina in the Wrigley Era; Chapter Five: THE OASIS OF LEISURE: Palm Springs before 1941
- Chapter Six: MAKING THE DESERT MODERN: Palm Springs after World War IIChapter Seven: FROM RESORTS TO THE RANCH HOUSE: Southern California's Culture of Leisure and the Making of the Suburban Sunbelt; EPILOGUE: The View from Mount San Jacinto; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-977968-6
- 1-282-76323-7
- 9786612763236
- 0-19-970003-6
- OCLC:
- 664572641
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