TY - BOOK AU - Hamera,Judith TI - Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970 SN - 9780472028108 AV - SF457 U1 - 639.34/4 PY - 2012/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Aquariums--Social aspects--United States--History KW - Aquariums--United States--History KW - Aquariums--United States--Historiography KW - Aquariums--Great Britain--Historiography KW - Home--United States--History KW - United States--Social life and customs--19th century KW - United States--Social life and customs--20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Promiscuous Vision: The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Chapter 2: Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments: Early British Aquarium Writing -- Chapter 3: The Toy of the Day: American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Chapter 4: Toy Fish -- Chapter 5: The Domestic Aquarium -- Chapter 6: "Foreign in the Domestic Sense": Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness -- Notes -- Index N2 - The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3415036 ER -