The frontier of leisure
Subtitle: Southern California and the shaping of modern America
By: Lawrence Culver.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780195382631
Subjects: Leisure -- California, Southern -- History; Recreation -- California, Southern -- History; Leisure -- Southwest, New -- History; Recreation -- Southwest, New -- History; California, Southern -- History; California, Southern -- Social life and customs; Southwest, New -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Prologue: The View from Fantasyland to Main Street, U.S.A.; title: Ch 1: Inventing the Frontier of Leisure: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Creation of the "Great Southwest"; title: Ch 2: The City of Leisure: The Contested History of Public Recreation in Los Angeles; title: Ch 3: The Island of Leisure: Tourism and the Transformation of Santa Catalina Island, 1887-1919; title: Ch 4: Westward the Course of Leisure Takes Its Way: Santa Catalina in the Wrigley Era; title: Ch 5: The Oasis of Leisure: Palm Springs before 1941; title: Ch 6: Making the Desert Modern: Palm Springs after World War II; title: Ch 7: From Resorts to the Ranch House: Southern California's Culture of Leisure and the Making of the Suburban Sunbelt; title: Epilogue: The View from Mount San Jacinto; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.