The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing by Peter Westwick, Peter Neushul
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Overview: The thinking-person’s guide to surfing and the world it has created.
For several semesters, the most popular course at the University of California at Santa Barbara was a team-taught lecture course on the history of surfing and, specifically, the cultural, political, economic, and environmental consequences of surfing’s evolution from a sport of Hawaiian kings to a billion-dollar worldwide industry. Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul weren’t surprised by the popularity of the class (UC Santa Barbara is a surfing school, after all, and together they have more than a century of experience in the water), but they were surprised that their non-surfing students outnumbered the surfers. There is something about surfing that people yearn to understand–and this is the book that examines the enduring worldwide appeal of the sport both in myth and reality.
Drawing on the authors’ expertise as, respectively, a cold war historian and a historian of environmental history, The Surfing Professors Explain the World brings alive the colorful history of surfing by drawing readers into the ideas that have fueled the sport’s expansion: colonialism, the military-industrial complex, globalization, capitalism, and race and gender roles. In a highly readable and provocative narrative history of the sport’s signal moments–from the spread of surfing to the US, to the development of surf culture, to the introduction of women into the sport–Neushul and Westwick draw an indelible portrait of surfing and surfers as actors on the global stage.
Genre: Non Fiction History Surfing
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