'Roughing it in Comfort': Family Cottaging and Consumer Culture in Postwar Ontario.
This article draws upon recent studies of anti-modernism to explore the relationship between consumer culture and family cottaging in Ontario during the quarter century following the Second World War. It examines both the actions and ideas of actual postwar cottagers, as revealed primarily through o...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 234 - 263 |
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