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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Ballston Spa are representative of the diffusion of spa culture and sociability to the former British colonies of North America. While Ballston, like many other attempts, faded into obscurity, by the early nineteenth century, Saratoga had … eighteenth-century. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords leisure Healing Colonies settler colonialism appropriation North America New England Virginia Travel Spa The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century sociability, operating … birth to this model of sociability, in a number of iterations across the continent, to the periphery of British North America in what would by the end of the century be the United States. The eighteenth century witnessed a rash of …

Vestries [ Religious Belief ]

… much critical scrutiny. From the seventeenth century, English and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies.   Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Religion Churches Communities Finances Local Government Corruption England Officials America Historical evolution From the late Middle Ages, local ecclesiastical communities in Latin Christianity shouldered … Parish, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, 1736-1901 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), p. 37. Further south along the American coast, small pools of chief inhabitants ran the vestries in Maryland and Virginia. Here again, the Anglican …

Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]

… Abstract One of the main events in religious history in Britain and colonial America in the eighteenth century was the development of Methodism. That evangelical revival brought about new … Field-preaching Sermons John Wesley George Whitefield Enthusiasm The development of Methodism in Britain and in colonial America from the 1730s onward brought a redefinition of religious sociability along with theological and liturgical … He was renowned for his oratorical skills and often preached in front of huge crowds, both in Britain and in the American colonies. Significantly enough, the origins of Methodism can be traced back to the meetings of a small group of …

Republic of Letters [ Concepts ]

… community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the Americas. Correspondence was the defining feature of its existence, enabling the dissemination of ideas, new literary and … community of scholars, and a very real, virtual community comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth -centuries. Not unlike our own contemporary world of individuals all over the … Coleman, ‘Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project’, The American Historical Review (122, n° 2, 2017), pp. 400-424, 409-410. 3 . On improvements to the postal system in Europe, …

Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Madagascar represented the ideal … as sites of sociability Members of the nobility and the royal family were interested in exotic plants notably from the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and China, which were brought back by plant collectors such as John Ellis … and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Madagascar represented the ideal …

Spas [ Health ]

… on British soil, the use of healing waters was not restricted to the mainland: mineral waters were also taken in early America and Jamaica. In 1784, Thomas Dancer published A short Dissertation on the Jamaica Bath Waters in which he … St Thomas, and the interactions between natives, colons and enslaved people around the use of therapeutic waters. In America, Charlene Lewis has shown the ways in which planter sociability at Virginia Springs was inherent to the … Earlier in the century, spas like Saratoga Springs were investigated by doctors and detached from the use made by Native American hydrophilic cultures, as Vaugh Scribner explains, though the phenomenon was not as widespread as it was in …