Curing the colonizers : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas / / Eric T. Jennings
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| Autore: |
Jennings Eric Thomas
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| Titolo: |
Curing the colonizers : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas / / Eric T. Jennings
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 615.8/53 |
| 615.853 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Hydrotherapy - French colonies - History |
| Health resorts - French colonies - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Curing the colonizers |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-3808-4 |
| 9786613022516 | |
| 1-283-02251-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813635603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.