Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-century Mineral Springs

Author:   Thomas J. Chambers
Publisher:   Smithsonian Books
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9781588340689


Pages:   282
Publication Date:   17 October 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-century Mineral Springs


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Few public places in the early nineteenth century offered men and women from different regions of the United States the opportunity to socialize with each other. At the resorts of Virginia's western mountains and upstate New York's Saratoga Springs, the nation's social, economic, and political leaders gathered to relax and to recuperate, and in the process they began to form a fledgling aristocracy. As Thomas Chambers reveals, at these resorts the boundaries of class and region were defined, tested, solidified, and broken by the Civil War, but eventually repaired in its aftermath.

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Author:   Thomas J. Chambers
Publisher:   Smithsonian Books
Imprint:   Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9781588340689


ISBN 10:   1588340686
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   17 October 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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"Thomas A. Chambers ""took the waters"" at many of the springs mentioned in this book. He is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Albion College, Michigan."

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