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A manufactured wilderness : summer camps and the shaping of American youth, 1890-1960

Since they were first established in the 1880s, children's summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they serve? How did they change over time? What factors influenced their design? To an...

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Autor principal: Van Slyck, Abigail Ayres (Author)
Formato: Online Resource Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press , 2006
Colecção:Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
Acesso em linha:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816648764.001.0001
Notas de Autor:Abigail A. Van Slyck
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture
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Resumo:Since they were first established in the 1880s, children's summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they serve? How did they change over time? What factors influenced their design? To answer these and many other questions, this book looks at the most visible and evocative aspect of camp life: its landscape and architecture. It argues that summer camps delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world, but rather a man-made version of wilderness, shaped by middle-class anxieties.
Descrição Física:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxxvii, 296 p.))
ISBN:9781452945989