Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… 11 . Jeremiah Fitch, 'Account and Memorandum of My Journey to Saratoga Springs (1820)', Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings (vol. 50, February 1917). Conspicuously absent, however, from the American iteration of spa … from across the young United States and beyond. This very success, however, was also a harbinger of the coming shifts in society and sociability. By the end of the long eighteenth century ca. 1850, older Saratoga residents and patrons would … Springs Resorts in Global Perspective: Spa Histories (London: Routledge, 2014). Chambers, Thomas A., ‘The Refined Society of Ballston, New York, 1800’, New York History (vol. 78, n o 3, July 1997), p. 245-272. Morrell, James, ‘James …
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