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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.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Baths and Curing in the Old Regime 2: Producing Leisure: Economics, Class Formation, and the Sejour for Sale 3: Respectability Emplaced 4: Medicine and the Rhythming of Bourgeois Rest 5: Social Benefits of Spa Consumption Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Leisure Settings Bourgeois Culture Medicine the

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226500744, 978-0226500744
      ISBN10: 0226500748
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      Anthropology Decolonisation Sociology: sport and leisure

      Description

      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Baths and Curing in the Old Regime 2: Producing Leisure: Economics, Class Formation, and the Sejour for Sale 3: Respectability Emplaced 4: Medicine and the Rhythming of Bourgeois Rest 5: Social Benefits of Spa Consumption Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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