Leisure Settings - Bourgeois Culture, Medicine and the Spa in Modern France

Klappentext List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas P. Mackaman, Mackaman Douglas P.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.1998
• EAN: 9780226500751
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50075-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Sociology: sport & leisure, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Sociology: sport and leisure