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Exploring the links between class identity and vacationing, the text looks at the popularity of France's health resorts in the 19th century. It shows how spas were promoted as an ordered equivalent to the busy lives of the bourgeoisie, and this premier vacation made and was made by the bourgeoisie.

Leisure Settings Bourgeois Culture Medicine and

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A Paperback / softback by Douglas P. Mackaman

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/12/1998
    ISBN13: 9780226500751, 978-0226500751
    ISBN10: 0226500756

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    Book Synopsis
    Exploring the links between class identity and vacationing, the text looks at the popularity of France's health resorts in the 19th century. It shows how spas were promoted as an ordered equivalent to the busy lives of the bourgeoisie, and this premier vacation made and was made by the bourgeoisie.

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