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Author:   John K. Walton (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138377738

ISBN 10:   1138377732
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Health, sociability, politics and culture: spas in history, spas and history 2. Scarborough in the 1730s: spa, sea and sex 3. Town or country? British spas and the urban/ rural interface 4. Visitors and residents: the dynamics of charity in eighteenth-century Bath 5. A fading movement: hydrotherapy at the Scottish Hydros, 1840-1939 6. The value of water: the origins and expansion of thermal tourism in Spain 7. Moral economies and commercial imperatives: food, diets and spas in Central Europe, 1800-1914 8. Spas, steamships and sardines: Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism 9. Reinventions of a spa town: the unique case of Vichy 10. Saratoga Springs: from genteel spa to Disneyfied family resort 11. From the majestic to the mundane: democracy, sophistication and history among the mineral spas of Australia

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John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE research professor in the Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bilbao, Spain. He edited Histories of Tourism (Clevedon: Channel View, 2005) and continues to publish extensively, and internationally, on histories of tourism, sport, popular culture and regional/ national identities, especially in Britain and Spain.

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