Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… daily life, sociability was strongly shaped by the knowledge of family links and ancestry. The publication and the circulation of directories left many clues, which help us to understand how they were effectively used by consumers. … Politeness Rank From the Restoration onwards, there was a close relationship between urban growth, sociability and the circulation of pocket directories. Directories were part of a booming market of services and products which catered to … Rosemary, The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: OUP, 1997). Woolf, Daniel R., The Social Circulation of the Past : English Historical Culture, 1500-1730 (Oxford: OUP, 2003). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology …
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