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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Springs and Ballston Spa are representative of the diffusion of spa culture and sociability to the former British colonies of North America. While Ballston, like many other attempts, faded into obscurity, by the early nineteenth … on the periphery in the later part of the long eighteenth-century. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés leisure Healing Colonies settler colonialism appropriation North America New England Virginia Travel Spa The spa was an important … be the United States. The eighteenth century witnessed a rash of ‘discovery’ of mineral springs by settlers in the young colonies of British North America and in time, efforts were made to render these waters useful in the eyes of British …

Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]

… horse-racing.   Practices > Associational culture Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés sports Club Cricket Horse-Racing Colonies Gambling Newmarket Cricket While the game of cricket had become popular in the first half of the eighteenth … Countess of Derby and Other Ladies', Tate , collection Marylebone Cricket Club, T03031, 1779. Cricket was played in the colonies, with mentions of games in Aleppo in 1676, and in the West Indies early in the nineteenth century, as well as in … Age (1794). (After) Robert Dighton, 'A Deep One and a Knowing One'​​​,  The British Museum , 2010,7081.948, 1791. In the colonies, the Maryland Jockey Club was founded in 1743 in Annapolis, and is possibly the oldest sporting club in North …

Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]

… Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Freemasonry brotherhood Cosmopolitanism ecumenism discrimination Women Colonies Archétype de la sociabilité volontaire au siècle des Lumières, forte de 200 à 300 000 membres et de plusieurs … la partie russe, dans Charles Porset et Cécile Révauger (dirs.), Le monde maçonnique des Lumières - Europe-Amériques & Colonies, Dictionnaire prosopographique, 3 vols. (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2013), vol. 3, p. 282-296. 16 . L’Etoile … de La Paix fait même la leçon au Grand Orient au cas où celui-ci se montrerait trop laxiste : L'on distingue dans les colonies   Blancs et sang-mêlé. La politique nécessaire au régime des   Iles d'Amérique a refusé à ces derniers, quoique …

Merchant communities in European ports [ Commerce / Mobility / Trade ]

… Résumé A l’époque moderne, de nombreuses colonies marchandes étrangères s’implantent dans les grands centres commerciaux pour y développer les échanges entre leur … moderne, entre le XVI e et le XVIII e siècle, les grands centres commerciaux, et notamment les ports, se peuplent de colonies marchandes étrangères qui se font remarquer par leur dynamisme et leur rôle de premier plan dans le rayonnement … de la banque Médicis à Séville. Á l’époque moderne, les Provinces-Unies montrent la voie et commencent à établir des colonies à l’étranger à partir de la seconde moitié du XVI e siècle. 1 Ainsi, les commerçants néerlandais évitent les …

Vestries [ Religious Belief ]

… critical scrutiny. From the seventeenth century, English and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies.   Practices > Religious Belief Mots-clés Religion Churches Communities Finances Local Government Corruption … critical scrutiny. From the seventeenth century, English and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies.   … Religion … Churches … Communities … Finances … Local Government … Corruption … England … Officials … …

Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… homes. Arcadia’s institutional boundaries were not limited to Rome, and nearly one hundred satellite academies, named ‘colonies,’ appeared in peripheral Italian cities. Scholars formed these regional colonies through their social networks, at their own estates: they adopted the common rules and admission procedures … at least two formal meetings per year, but they were not required to settle in a dedicated space. This led some colonies to maintain the salon-style meetings in private residences, along with the sociable conversation practices …