Eric T Jennings

Curing the Colonizers

Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A cultural history of French colonizers, and their ambitions and anxieties, as reflected through highland spas in th French empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338086
• ISBN-10: 0822338084
• Artikelnr.: 22284413

Autorenporträt

Eric T. Jennings is Associate Professor of History and a member of Victoria College at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940–1944 and a coeditor, with Jacques Cantier, of L’Empire colonial sous Vichy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1. Acclimatization, Climatology, and the Possibility of Empire 8
2. Colonial Hydrotherapy 40
3. Highland Hydrotherapy in Guadeloupe 64
4. The Spas and Réunion Island: Antechambers to the Tropics 90
5. Leisure and Power at the Spa of Antsirabe, Madagascar 118
6. Korbous, Tunisia: Negating the Hamman 154
7. Vichy: Taking the Waters Back Home 178
Conclusion 211
Archival Abbreviations 215
Notes 217
Bibliography 247
Index 263