Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… many men of limited formal education and provided forums for a broad part of the population, including women. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Advertisement Clubs Debate Eloquence Gender Middling sort North America Politics Public sphere Debating societies were commercial … public. They can be understood as institutions of the public sphere going further down the social scale than gentlemen’s clubs or coffeehouses. They developed in London, and later in provincial cities, in the second half of the eighteenth …
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