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Parlor Ponds : The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028108
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Parlor PondsDDC classification:
  • 639.34/4
LOC classification:
  • SF457
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium.
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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.

The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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