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The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America Culver, Lawrence (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Utah State University)
The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America
Culver, Lawrence (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Utah State University)
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.
336 pages, 35 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199891924 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 232 × 15 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |