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

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"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
Autor principal: Jennings, Eric T. (Eric Thomas), 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kolonie
Kurort
Heilbad
Klimatherapie
Balneologie
Health resorts > France > Colonies > History.
Hydrotherapy > France > Colonies > History.
MEDICAL > History.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > General.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Hydrotherapy > history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Colonialism
Health Resorts > history
Health resorts > French colonies > History.
Hydrotherapy > French colonies > History.
Frankreich
France
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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