Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… 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, faded into obscurity, by the early nineteenth century, Saratoga had … part of the long eighteenth-century. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Colonies Cosmopolitanism Health Leisure North America Spa Travel The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century sociability, operating as a kind of open … birth to this model of sociability, in a number of iterations across the continent, to the periphery of British North America in what would by the end of the century be the United States. The eighteenth century witnessed a rash of …
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