Healthy Living in the Alps - The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914

Informationen zum Autor Susan Barton is a Research Fellow at de Montfort University. Klappentext Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism.The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids were resting as part of the sanatoria routine. Demonstrating that this is not just part of the history of Switzerland but of Britain too, biographical backgrounds of British visitors to the resorts give depth and context to a history of health and winter sports tourism by looking at the kind of people who would spend months of the year in the Alps. A discussion of the application of modern technologies creates an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland Zusammenfassung Explores the history of sanatoria and of winter sports between 1860 and 1914 in Switzerland. This book offers an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editors introductionIntroduction 1. The quest for health in the Alps2. Davos3. St Moritz4. Arosa5. Leysin6. Grindelwald7. Transfer of Technology8. Who were the first winter sports men and womenConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Susan Barton, Barton Susan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9780719078439
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7843-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, Switzerland, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Winter Sports, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, C 1900 - C 1914, Tourism industry, c 1900 to c 1909, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, SPORTS & RECREATION / Martial Arts / General