John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE research professor in the Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bilbao, Spain. He edited Histories of Tourism (Clevedon: Channel View, 2005) and continues to publish extensively, and internationally, on histories of tourism, sport, popular culture and regional/ national identities, especially in Britain and Spain.

• 1. Introduction: Health, sociability, politics and culture: spas in history, spas and history 2. Scarborough in the 1730s: spa, sea and sex 3. Town or country? British spas and the urban/ rural interface 4. Visitors and residents: the dynamics of charity in eighteenth-century Bath 5. A fading movement: hydrotherapy at the Scottish Hydros, 1840-1939 6. The value of water: the origins and expansion of thermal tourism in Spain 7. Moral economies and commercial imperatives: food, diets and spas in Central Europe, 1800-1914 8. Spas, steamships and sardines: Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism 9. Reinventions of a spa town: the unique case of Vichy 10. Saratoga Springs: from genteel spa to Disneyfied family resort 11. From the majestic to the mundane: democracy, sophistication and history among the mineral spas of Australia

John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE research professor in the Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bilbao, Spain. He edited Histories of Tourism (Clevedon: Channel View, 2005) and continues to publish extensively, and internationally, on histories of tourism, sport, popular culture and regional/ national identities, especially in Britain and Spain.

• 1. Introduction: Health, sociability, politics and culture: spas in history, spas and history 2. Scarborough in the 1730s: spa, sea and sex 3. Town or country? British spas and the urban/ rural interface 4. Visitors and residents: the dynamics of charity in eighteenth-century Bath 5. A fading movement: hydrotherapy at the Scottish Hydros, 1840-1939 6. The value of water: the origins and expansion of thermal tourism in Spain 7. Moral economies and commercial imperatives: food, diets and spas in Central Europe, 1800-1914 8. Spas, steamships and sardines: Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism 9. Reinventions of a spa town: the unique case of Vichy 10. Saratoga Springs: from genteel spa to Disneyfied family resort 11. From the majestic to the mundane: democracy, sophistication and history among the mineral spas of Australia

John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE research professor in the Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bilbao, Spain. He edited Histories of Tourism (Clevedon: Channel View, 2005) and continues to publish extensively, and internationally, on histories of tourism, sport, popular culture and regional/ national identities, especially in Britain and Spain.

• 1. Introduction: Health, sociability, politics and culture: spas in history, spas and history 2. Scarborough in the 1730s: spa, sea and sex 3. Town or country? British spas and the urban/ rural interface 4. Visitors and residents: the dynamics of charity in eighteenth-century Bath 5. A fading movement: hydrotherapy at the Scottish Hydros, 1840-1939 6. The value of water: the origins and expansion of thermal tourism in Spain 7. Moral economies and commercial imperatives: food, diets and spas in Central Europe, 1800-1914 8. Spas, steamships and sardines: Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism 9. Reinventions of a spa town: the unique case of Vichy 10. Saratoga Springs: from genteel spa to Disneyfied family resort 11. From the majestic to the mundane: democracy, sophistication and history among the mineral spas of Australia