Puerto Rican Poverty and Migration: We Just Had to Try Elsewhere

by Julio Morales

Book Overview

In the eighteenth century, when society's passion for 'taking the waters' coincided with increasingly dangerous continental travel, Cheltenham's chalybeate springs were endowed with almost magical curative qualities by speculators anxious to emulate Bath's legendary sucess. In what was still an obscure agricultural community below the Cotswold Hills a cabal of entrepreneurs raised fancy pump rooms in which the great and the good might dance and flirt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275920208
• ISBN13: 9780275920203
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"