Format:
Online-Ressource (285 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780822338086
Series Statement:
E-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
Content:
Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Acclimatization, Climatology, and the Possibility of Empire; 2. Colonial Hydrotherapy; 3. Highland Hydrotherapy in Guadeloupe; 4. The Spas of Réunion Island: Antechambers to the Tropics; 5. Leisure and Power at the Spa of Antsirabe, Madagascar; 6. Korbous,Tunisia: Negating the Hammam; 7. Vichy: Taking theWaters Back Home; Conclusion; Archival Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822388272
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822338086
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Curing the Colonizers : Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
