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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jennings, Eric T. (Eric Thomas), 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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