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Water, Leisure and Culture - European Historical Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Water, Leisure and Culture - European Historical Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Leisure, Consumption and Culture
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Dancing on the beach after a swim in the Mediterranean, taking the
waters in fashionable Baden-Baden, boating on the Black Sea - the
myriad uses of water imply that the term itself possesses multiple
meanings. Focusing on Europe, this book addresses how using water
for relaxation intersects with ideas about class, gender,
nationality, and consumption. It also explores the ways Europeans
have turned to water for pleasure, relaxation, and profit over the
last two hundred years as the enjoyment of free time developed from
a privilege into a right. Contributors capture key moments of
social and cultural transition in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries -- moments during which new social distinctions emerged,
debates about nationalism and cosmopolitanism flourished, concepts
of hygiene became politicized, and attitudes about travel and
vacationing developed.
What kinds of relationships exist between recreational uses of
water and cultural, social, or political practices? How have such
relationships found representation in art, landscaping, or
architecture? Who visits water resorts or beaches and what role
have these places played in the emergence of collective identities
or in lending authority to social distinctions? How does the
organization of leisure activities around water reflect ideas about
purity and pollution, in a moral, social, or physical sense?
This exciting venture into 'uncharted waters' will fascinate
historians, geographers and anyone with a keen interest in European
cultural studies, art and landscape.
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