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Curing the colonizers : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas /

"Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy." So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France's main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with "climatic" cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jennings, Eric T. (Eric Thomas), 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acclimatization, climatology, and the possibility of empire
  • Colonial hydrotherapy
  • Highland hydrotherapy in Guadeloupe
  • The spas of Réunion 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.