Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… dessins originaux pris sur les lieux’, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1812. Abstract Saratoga Springs and Ballston Spa are representative of the diffusion of spa culture and sociability to the former British colonies of North America. While Ballston, like many other attempts, … here was not simply an attempt to mimic the English model, but rather a reinterpretation of elements of transnational spa culture which shows both the transmission and adaptation of eighteenth-century British sociability on the periphery …
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