Healthy living in the Alps LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style Manuals

Healthy living in the Alps LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style ManualsHealthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism. The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids

desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival

mediating channels and modernism

examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity

word and deed

Both rigorous and readable

Open Roads

It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention

demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict

A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic

we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court

a self-described “militant moderate