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Author Hamera, Judith.

Title Parlor ponds : the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / Judith Hamera.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages) : illustrations
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Aquariums -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Aquariums -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Aquariums.
Aquariums -- United States -- History.
Aquariums -- United States -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Aquariums -- Great Britain -- Historiography.
Great Britain.
Home -- United States -- History.
Home.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hamera, Judith. Parlor ponds. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2012 9780472071661 (DLC) 2011028328 (OCoLC)731913293
ISBN 9780472028108 (electronic book)
0472028103 (electronic book)
9780472071661
0472071661
9780472051663
0472051660
Standard No. 9786613436863