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The lost world of the great Spas
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ISBN: 0060145846 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Harper and Row

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity
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ISBN: 0262740184 0262240351 9780262740180 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge (MA) ; London : The architectural history foundation, M.I.T. Press,


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Watertaal: de mooiste watertaal gebruikt op zoet-, zout-, bad-, binnen- en zeewater, en verklaard door landrotten, walslurpen, zeeschuimers en zoetwatermatrozen
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ISBN: 9064103682 Year: 2002 Publisher: Haarlem Hollandia

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Roeien
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ISBN: 9059200551 Year: 2002 Publisher: Utrecht Veltman

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Roeien, jong aan de slag
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ISBN: 9072335422 Publisher: Zeist Jan Luitingfonds

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Lexicon van de watersport, visserij, koopvaardij, marine en bruine vloot.
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ISBN: 9050183700 Year: 1996 Publisher: Amsterdam : Balans,


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Empire in waves
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ISBN: 0520279115 0520958047 9780520958043 9781306290654 1306290651 9780520279100 9780520279117 0520279107 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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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. 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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