Curing the colonizers : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas / Eric T. Jennings.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

xi, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index.

Acclimatization, climatology, and the possibility of empire -- Colonial hydrotherapy -- Highland hydrotherapy in Guadeloupe -- The spas of Réunion Island: antechambers to the tropics -- Leisure and power at the spa of Antsirabe, Madagascar -- Korbous, Tunisia: negating the hammam -- Vichy: taking the waters back home.