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Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and repression of the long twentieth century.ÊÊ Emerging as an imperial instrument in post-annexation Hawaii, spawning a form of tourism that conquered the littoral Third World, tracing the struggle against South African apartheid, and employed as a diplomatic weapon in America's Cold War arsenal, the saga of modern surfing is only partially captured by Gidget, the Beach Boys, and the film Blue Crush. From nineteenth-century American empire-building in the Pacific to the low-wage labor of the surf industry today, Laderman argues that surfing in fact closely mirrored American foreign relations. Yet despite its less-than-golden past, the sport continues to captivate people worldwide. Whether in El Salvador or Indonesia or points between, the modern history of this cherished pastime is hardly an uncomplicated story of beachside bliss. Sometimes messy, occasionally contentious, but never dull, surfing offers us a whole new way of viewing our globalized world.


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  • Author : Scott Laderman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 256 pages
  • ISBN : 0520279107
  • PDF File Size : 36,9 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Empire in Waves

Empire in Waves
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
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  • Release Date : 03 March 2014
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Waves Across the South

Waves Across the South
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  • Release Date : 07 May 2021
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  • Release Date : 24 June 2015
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  • Release Date : 16 June 2024
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A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars. Andreas Wimmer explores these historical developments using social science techniques of

Waves Across the South

Waves Across the South
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This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented

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  • Release Date : 06 August 2015
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Alluvium and Empire

Alluvium and Empire
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • File Size : 50,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 18 May 2021
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Alluvium and Empire examines the archaeology of Indigenous communities and landscapes that were subject to Spanish colonial forced resettlement during the sixteenth century. Written at the intersections of history and

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  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
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  • Release Date : 23 February 2022
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When most Americans think of surfing, they often envision waves off the coasts of California, Hawai'i, or even New Jersey. What few know is that the South has its own

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Focusing on the importance of formal experimentation for matters of content and meaning, this original interpretation of what Woolf called her "play-poem" argues that with its depiction of a certain

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  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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  • Release Date : 29 November 2018
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