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Author Hamera, Judith.

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

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 268 p. : ill.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780472071661 (cloth alk. paper)
9780472051663 (paper alk. paper)
9780472028108 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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