Street sociability [ Cities ]
… formed the most demotic of social spaces. In eighteenth-century Britain, it was on the street that gentlemen and gentlewomen rubbed shoulders with hawkers, paupers and a varied cast of social inferiors. The streets demanded new rules of … the street as a uniquely complex site of social exchange and sociability. Places > Cities Keywords Crime Streets Rules Women In eighteenth-century British towns, almost everyone was a pedestrian. It was on the street that gentlemen met merchants, where artisans trudged alongside clerks, where women sold the necessities of the everyday; and where beggars cried for attention. The street was the club that admitted …
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