Curing the Colonizers
Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2006
284 pages
978-0-8223-8827-2 (ISBN)
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Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962.
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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.
Content
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
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
