Tag: Karen Eva Carr
A rigorously referenced, valuable and refreshing addition to the historiography of swimming
Karen Eva Carr’s Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books) is a comprehensive history of swimming, where that history functions as a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender and power on a centuries-long scale. We’ve been fortunate to engage as reviewer leading aquatic sports historian Dave Day, Manchester Metropolitan University. Relating Carr’s book to several previous histories of swimming, he finds her effort both stimulating, accessible and readable.
