Lawrence Culver

The Frontier of Leisure

Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's tourist resorts and residential recreation influenced the nation, from ranch houses and the landscape of postwar suburbia to relations of labor and race, and the place of nature in everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199891924
• ISBN-10: 0199891923
• Artikelnr.: 34930402

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Culver is AssociateProfessor of History at Utah State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue: The View from Fantasyland to Main Street, U.S.A.
* Ch 1: Inventing the Frontier of Leisure: Charles Fletcher Lummis and
the Creation of the "Great Southwest"
* Ch 2: The City of Leisure: The Contested History of Public Recreation
in Los Angeles
* Ch 3: The Island of Leisure: Tourism and the Transformation of Santa
Catalina Island, 1887-1919
* Ch 4: Westward the Course of Leisure Takes Its Way: Santa Catalina in
the Wrigley Era
* Ch 5: The Oasis of Leisure: Palm Springs before 1941
* Ch 6: Making the Desert Modern: Palm Springs after World War II
* Ch 7: 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
* Bibliography