UID:
almafu_9959677618602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (285 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-3808-4
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9786613022516
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1-283-02251-6
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection
Inhalt:
Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Acclimatization, climatology, and the possibility of empire -- Colonial hydrotherapy -- Highland hydrotherapy in Guadeloupe -- The spas of Reunion Island: antechambers to the tropics -- Leisure and power at the spa of Antsirabe, Madagascar -- Korbous, Tunisia: negating the hammam -- Vichy: taking the waters back home.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-8827-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-3822-X
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780822388272
