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The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919 (Paperback)
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The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth
century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like
there and how their functions evolved to the point where their
original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by
the unintended uses of spas as stages of social and political
interactions. These popular resorts were nicknamed 'the summer
capitals of Europe' because of the tendency of nations' governing
classes to gather there. Every summer between 1814 and 1914 (and in
a few cases during World War I) continental watering places became
a microcosm of cosmopolitan aristocratic Europe, incorporating its
conventions, tastes, concerns and interests. As the nineteenth
century advanced, fashionable watering stations increasingly became
associated with social bonding, matchmaking, pleasure, career
building, conspicuous consumption and diplomatic activity that took
place during the high season.
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