Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… in places of sociability such as gardens, public 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 … ways of being. But the most sociable import from the Ottoman Empire, supplier of luxury goods such as spices, perfumes, coffee and tea, was the coffeehouse, 10 the centre of urban sociability fostering dialogue and human relationships without the restrictions of …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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