Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… century, Saratoga had grown into a thriving centre for fashion and sociability among elites from across the young United States. Sociability here was not simply an attempt to mimic the English model, but rather a reinterpretation of elements … 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 ‘discovery’ of mineral springs by settlers in the young colonies of … comme dans tout le reste des Etats-Unis.’ 7 Tocqueville, eagerly and often cited by scholars of the early United States, had indeed planned to visit Saratoga on his travels, using a French translation of a contemporary popular …
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