… 3431, 1904. Image The Subscribers of the City Dancing Assembly’, United States Gazette (Philadelphia), Dec. 12, 1798, America’s Historical Newspapers database. Abstract The upper class of Philadelphia—a political, economic, and cultural center in eighteenth-century British NorthAmerica—followed English patterns of sociability in order to distinguish themselves in colonial society and to mix … ties among colonial and early-national social elites. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Assemblies Advertisement Dance NorthAmerica For many in British NorthAmerica’s upper and aspiring classes during the eighteenth century, the English …
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… public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that NorthAmerica, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Madagascar represented the ideal … turquerie . Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries NorthAmerica During the long eighteenth century, a wave of exotic mania swept England so fully that the passion for the …
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… were integral to a merchant’s credit and financial dealings. People > Commerce Keywords Commerce Merchants Middling sort NorthAmerica Politeness A merchant was ‘a trader or a dealer by wholesale’, especially ‘one who trafficks to remote … quite dramatically. Exports to the East Indies multiplied nearly sevenfold through the period, and exports into NorthAmerica almost quadrupled. 9 5 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial …
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… from the Journal of John Wesley, 1891. 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 … Practices > Associational culture Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Catholicism Churches Dissent Methodism NorthAmerica Sermon The development of Methodism in Britain and in colonial America from the 1730s onward brought a … Culture in England 1720-1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). … Catholicism … Churches … Dissent … Methodism … NorthAmerica … Sermon … Methodism …
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