Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… honour and patronage. The exchange of gifts helped to foster and deepen social relationships, from friends and kin to patrons and charitable donors. But gifts could also be problematic and create anxieties. The exchange of gifts was … Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State’. Gifting was not, of course, new in the long eighteenth-century and there was already a …
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