Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… of which drew on fashionable sociability. 4 . Paul Slack, From Reformation to Improvement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 14 and p. 129. The social benefits of gifts were evident to contemporaries and care was taken about the … . Mark Knights, Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), chapter 2. Modern commentators, following the anthropologist Marcel Mauss, have seen the gift as under pressure from eighteenth century commercial society which made exchange into a monetised transaction. Karl Polanyi …
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