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- Title
The Lure of the Beach: A Global History by Robert C. Ritchie (review).
- Authors
Booth, Douglas
- Abstract
Author Robert Ritchie begins his narrative on the English beach in the eighteenth century, where the upper classes, upon the advice of medical practitioners, immersed themselves in cold seawater as a general therapy. Today, beach resorts exist in myriad forms, from exclusive luxury resorts in the Caribbean and the Pacific to mega beaches exemplified by Australia's Gold Coast and Florida's Emerald Coast. He submits that governments and policy makers will prioritize the protection of urban infrastructure - "water supplies, roads, sewage facilities, power plants" and the like - over beach resorts and public beaches (p. 248).
- Subjects
WORLD history; BEACHES; SEASIDE resorts; BATHING suits; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2022, Vol 63, Issue 4, p1232
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.2022.0183