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The thinking-person's guide to surfing and the world it has created.
 
Among the most popular courses at the University of California at Santa Barbara is a team-taught lecture series on the history of surfing that immerses students in the cultural, political, economic, and environmental consequences of surfing's evolution from a sport of Hawaiian kings and queens to a billion-dollar worldwide industry.  Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul bring more than sixty years of experience in the water to the class and are not surprised by the class’s popularity – UC Santa Barbara is, after all, a surfing school.  The real surprise is that their non-surfing students outnumber 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 historian of science and technology and an environmental historian, The World in the Curl brings alive the colorful history of surfing by drawing readers into the forces that have fueled the sport's 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 big-wave frontiers, to the reintroduction of women into the sport – Neushul and Westwick draw an indelible portrait of surfing and surfers as actors on the global stage.




From the Hardcover edition.