Water, Leisure and Culture

ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMap of Europe1 Introduction: The Pleasure of Taking the Waters Susan C. AndersonCollective Identities2 Fashionable Spa Towns in Nineteenth-century Europe David Blackbourn3 The Culture of the Water Cure in Nineteenth-century Austria, 1800@1914 Jill Steward4 The Waters of San Sebasti¡n: Therapy, Health, Pleasure and Identity, 1840@1936 John Walton5 The Thrill of Frozen Water: Class, Gender and Ice-Skating in The Netherlands, 1600@1900Jan Hein Furn©e6 The Finnish Sauna and Its FinnishnessPekka LeimuAesthetics and Ideology7 Seaside Visitors: Idlers, Thinkers and Patriots in Mid-nineteenth-century BritainChristiana Payne8 A Sound Mind in a Sound Body: Bathing in SwedenMichelle Facos9 The Ideological, Aesthetic and Ecological Significance of Water in Twentieth-century German Garden DesignJoachim Wolschke-Bulmahn10 The Thermenpalast (Thermal Palace): An Outstanding German Water-leisure Project from the 1920sGert Gr¶ning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn11 Hungarian Spas Teresa SwitzerEcology and Economics12 Water Recreation Resources and Environmental Pressures along Bulgaria's Black Sea CoastVassil Marinov and Boian Koulov13 Water and Leisure in Moldova: A Social Perspective Maria Vodenska14 Water, Culture and Leisure: From Spas to Beach Tourism in Greece during the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesMargarita Dritsas15 Rimini and Costa Smeralda: How Social Values Shape Recreational Sites Patrizia Battilani16 Vacationing on France's C´te d'Azur, 1950@2000 Andr© RauchBibliography Notes on Contributors Index