Parlor ponds [electronic resource] : the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / Judith Hamera.

By: Hamera, JudithContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Description: ix, 268 p. : illISBN: 9780472028108 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Aquariums -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Aquariums -- United States -- History | Aquariums -- United States -- Historiography | Aquariums -- Great Britain -- Historiography | Home -- United States -- History | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 639.34/4 LOC classification: SF457.3 | .H36 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing -- The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Toy Fish -- The Domestic Aquarium -- "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing -- The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Toy Fish -- The Domestic Aquarium -- "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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