Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas

✍ Scribed by Eric T. Jennings

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 284
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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