The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… English social world was the model for refined behavior. 1 It should be noted that most people living in these colonies in this period had other notions than England for their ‘mother’ country: Native Americans, African-descended … to shifts—including in corporeal understandings—that Americans were undergoing. Culturally, however, many of the colonies’—and then the nation’s—visible institutions (from banks to ballrooms) closely resembled those of England. The … by the mid-eighteenth century, the second city of the British Empire, making its social weight significant within the colonies and beyond. Of this, the city’s established and aspiring elites were well aware. 2 1 . Historical Society of …
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