Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… the eyes of British settlers through the construction of European-type improvements. This, naturally, was related to the appropriation of Indigenous lands and resources, as well as to an idea of ‘civilizing’ the waters, rendering them ‘safe’ … however, that colonization did not entail complete erasure of the Native past of these springs, but rather an appropriation and recasting of that past into an image of the Noble Savage, who had long known of the medicinal powers of …
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