Parlor ponds
Subtitle: the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970
By: Judith Hamera
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780472071661; 9780472051663; 9780472028108
Subjects: Historiography; Home; History; Aquariums; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium; title: Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing; title: The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915; title: Toy Fish; title: The Domestic Aquarium; title: "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium; title: Conclusion: Reefer Madness.