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A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)
A Manufactured Wilderness Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth 18901960 - Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture
Author: Abigail A. Van Slyck
Since they were first established in the 1880s, children?s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816648764
ISBN-10: 081664876X
Publication Date: 10/25/2006
Pages: 296
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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