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

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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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