Environmental History, July 1st, 2006
Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900. By David L. Richards. Durham and Hanover, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England, 2005. χ + 313 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00.
Maine's Poland Spring resort is perhaps best known to readers as the original source for the bottled water that still bears its name. But as David Richards's compelling book demonstrates, the resort was also a paragon of Gilded Age American culture-a place where the class-based values, anxieties, and aspirations held by many during t...
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