Gifts and Gift-giving
[ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… (especially thoroughbred horses), jewels and artworks (especially portraits) were sent abroad to smooth negotiations and commerce with foreign powers, a macro rather than micro form of sociability. Gifting was an intrinsic part of British …
… by it, nor given any greater insight to the condition of slavery‘, The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel (Cambridge: CUP, 1996), p. 123. Wilberforce’s major achievement lies in changing the …