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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 … . Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries North America During the long eighteenth century, a wave of exotic mania swept England so fully that the passion for the exotic … 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 …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]
… seemed to promise the free exchange of ideas and open discussion. 2 2 . Mark Granovetter, ‘The strength of weak ties’ American J. of Sociology, 78, 6 (1973), 1360-1380; Allan Silver, ‘Friendship in commercial society; Eighteenth-century social theory and modern sociology’ American Journal of Sociology (95, 6 (1990)), p. 1474-1504. Political Justice was a manifesto for achieving extensive … in the 1790s (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), p. 36-38. Granovetter, Mark, ‘The strength of weak ties’, American Journal of Sociology (vol. 78, n° 6, 1973), p. 1360-1380. Silver, Allan, ‘Friendship in commercial society. …
Conventions | Correspondence | Diaries | Friendship | Politics | Radicalism
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The Spectator, No. 11 (13 March 1711) [ Practices ]
… It happened, in the Course of the Voyage, that the Achilles, in some Distress, put into a Creek on the Main of America, in search of Provisions. The Youth, who is the Hero of my Story, among others, went ashore on this Occasion. … agreeable to each other. If the European was highly charmed with the Limbs, Features, and wild Graces of the Naked American; the American was no less taken with the Dress, Complexion, and Shape of an European, covered from Head to Foot. The Indian …
Periodicals | North America
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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 10 . Cited in Alice Morse Earle, Two Centuries of Costume in America 1620-1820 (Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971), vol. II, p. 589. 11 . Pocket, Acc. No. MS. H.RHB.11, National … Culture History (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, ‘Of Pens and Needles: Sources in Early American Women’s History’, The Journal of American History (vol. 77, n o 1, 1990), p. 200-207. Unsworth, Rebecca, ‘Hands Deep in History: Pockets in Men and …
Dress | Fashion | Friendship | Gaming | Women
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Hospitality (in the writings of James Cook and Watkin Tench) [ Social interaction / Mobility / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… Image RESOLUTION: Journal kept by Captain James Cook. Discovery and surveying, Pacific, Australia, west coast of North America', 1778 Apr. 5-1779 Jan. 6, The National Archives, Kew, ADM 55/113. Abstract En abolissant la frontière de passage … 2019). RESOLUTION: Journal kept by Captain James Cook. Discovery and surveying, Pacific, Australia, west coast of North America. The National Archives, ADM 55/113. Link to TNA Discovery platform: … RESOLUTION: Journal kept by Captain James Cook. Discovery and surveying, Pacific, Australia, west coast of North America. The National Archives, ADM 55/111. Link to TNA Discovery platform: …
Australia | Exploration | Gift | Hospitality | Pacific | Reciprocity | Ritual
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English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… out the promise of world peace through commercial interdependence. An observer to the peace talks in Paris after the American War of Independence in 1783 summed up the general view circulating among the negotiators: ‘freedom of trade and … Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Origins of the French Revolution’, American Historical Review (vol. 101, n° 1, 1996), p. 13-40. Rothschild, Emma, Economic sentiments: Adam Smith, … Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Origins of the French Revolution’, American Historical Review (vol. 101, n° 1, 1996), p. 13-40. Rothschild, Emma, Economic sentiments: Adam Smith, …
Antagonism | Commerce | Equality | France | Hierarchy | Morality
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