This article uses a study of Toronto in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to upend assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. Rather than attempting to drive bathers out of urban space, the city’s middle class viewed the bathing boy through the lens of anti-modernism and turned them into pre-industrial folk figures. Puncturing the nostalgic gloss of the swimming hole allows us to see the city with new eyes. We can avoid declensionist narratives that imagined Toronto’s Don River as too polluted or too industrial for recreational use. When we follow the bathers we find that the marginal, semi-industrialized river provided an ideal recreational space that cloaked and contained the un...
L’article analyse les transformations survenues au niveau du nombre et de la nature des navires des ...
The article discusses the involvement of the colonial Municipal Commissioners of Singapore in the ma...
Cet article, qui porte sur l’analyse des différents espaces dans lesquels la bourgeoisie angl...
Bathing transformed between 1850 and 1935 as Toronto moved from a vernacular system, epitomized by t...
In the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, the Lake Ontario waterfront along ...
Toronto Island, known as ‘the Island,’ has always been the city of Toronto’s most distinctive and be...
This dissertation explores human interactions with Toronto’s Don River Valley from the late eighteen...
grantor: University of TorontoIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, thousan...
During the nineteenth century, water had become the fundamental element in the policy of urban sanit...
Until the 1970s Canadian public works had been adequately described, but never extensively studied i...
This article examines the social and political factors which influenced the development of the Paris...
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as “The Beach” was...
This article examines the history of the Toronto Humane Society [THS] from 1887 to 1891. It argues t...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...
In the 1920s a distinct youth culture formed in Canada. A key to this culture was the emergence of a...
L’article analyse les transformations survenues au niveau du nombre et de la nature des navires des ...
The article discusses the involvement of the colonial Municipal Commissioners of Singapore in the ma...
Cet article, qui porte sur l’analyse des différents espaces dans lesquels la bourgeoisie angl...
Bathing transformed between 1850 and 1935 as Toronto moved from a vernacular system, epitomized by t...
In the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, the Lake Ontario waterfront along ...
Toronto Island, known as ‘the Island,’ has always been the city of Toronto’s most distinctive and be...
This dissertation explores human interactions with Toronto’s Don River Valley from the late eighteen...
grantor: University of TorontoIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, thousan...
During the nineteenth century, water had become the fundamental element in the policy of urban sanit...
Until the 1970s Canadian public works had been adequately described, but never extensively studied i...
This article examines the social and political factors which influenced the development of the Paris...
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as “The Beach” was...
This article examines the history of the Toronto Humane Society [THS] from 1887 to 1891. It argues t...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...
In the 1920s a distinct youth culture formed in Canada. A key to this culture was the emergence of a...
L’article analyse les transformations survenues au niveau du nombre et de la nature des navires des ...
The article discusses the involvement of the colonial Municipal Commissioners of Singapore in the ma...
Cet article, qui porte sur l’analyse des différents espaces dans lesquels la bourgeoisie angl...