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UNINA9910780602403321 |
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Autore |
Jennings Eric Thomas |
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Titolo |
Curing the colonizers [[electronic resource] ] : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas / / Eric T. Jennings |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-8223-3808-4 |
9786613022516 |
1-283-02251-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Collana |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hydrotherapy - French colonies - History |
Health resorts - French colonies - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acclimatization, climatology, and the possibility of empire -- Colonial hydrotherapy -- Highland hydrotherapy in Guadeloupe -- The spas of ReĢunion 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962. |
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