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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… the reaction against the French Revolution hardened, public political debate became impossible and societies were outlawed. Despite those chequered fortunes they served as places for self-improvement for many men of limited formal … There was overlap in some cases, though: the Select Society of Edinburgh (1754), with its membership of landowners and lawyers, was exclusive and gentlemanly yet rather numerous. 1 Debating societies were distinct from clubs for at least … the reaction against the French Revolution hardened, public political debate became impossible and societies were outlawed. Despite those chequered fortunes they served as places for self-improvement for many men of limited formal …
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… and the Commercial Code. About the French Constitution, years earlier, he had written in his travel account that the laws applied in France were contained in a book called al-Shart , ʻfrom the French word La charte ʼ ( al-Tahtāwī, Takhlīs … and collaborators, we get to about two thousand translated volumes on the most varied subjects: from literature to law, from medicine to military arts. 12 . Khedivé of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, he shared the modern vision of … which constitutes a model to follow for Muslims. After the Qur’ān, the Sunna is the second source of the Islamic Law. 14 . Another Nahda pioneer. 15 . The Trusted Guide for Girls and Boys, 1872 Partager Partager sur Facebook Partager …
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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… codified in the US constitution of 1788-9: Zephyr Teachout, ‘Gifts, Offices, and Corruption’, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (n° 107, 2012), pp. 30-54; Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box … Thurlow and William Pitt, whilst the King and Queen grasp money on the floor. Thus long after gifts had been outlawed, they remained a problem. In Mughal India, subordinates offered tributes or nazr (offering) and received …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… and David Hume, for whom ‘self’ was a loose compound of fleeting impressions. An epigonic reader of Locke, Edmund Law used the masquerade patterns as a way to explain Locke’s theory, arguing that the word ‘person’ should be understood … in England, 1730-1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984). 5 . Edmund Law, A Defence of Mr. Locke’s Opinion Concerning Personal Identity (Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1769), p. 40. In … Clothes That Wear Us : Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999). Wahrman, Dror, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… ‘largely composed of professional men rather than aristocrats’ and that ‘many of the “lords” who figure in them were law lords who worked their way up through their profession’. 6 Such societies and clubs include Rankenian Club (founded … was sometimes called the ‘ state of nature. ’ This raised a set of further questions, prompted in part by the natural law theorist Samuel Pufendorf ’s insistence that human need ( indigentia ) supplied a basis for society prior to the …
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… territory across what is now Pennsylvania. Its capital city, Philadelphia, was intended to demonstrate in layout and laws the values of rationality, pacifism, austerity, and tolerance—tolerance for religious diversity, but not for …
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… He does not seem to have performed himself during these evenings, though his daughters Esther and Susanna and his son-in-law Charles Rousseau Burney frequently did ( The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, II, 77; 187). 3 . Dena … between public and private gatherings in the eighteenth-century, and it is important to keep in mind that, as Lawrence Klein explains, ‘the private and the public did not correspond to the distinction between home and not-home. … informal, easy-going implementation of these principles was certainly a hallmark of the Burneys’ musical evenings. 12 . Lawrence E. Klein, ‘Gender and the Public/Private Distinction in the Eighteenth Century: Some Questions about Evidence …
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… infamy of boxing’: preaching against pugilism Eighteenth-century debates around boxing were not simply questioning the lawfulness of a sport, debates extended to the values it conveyed, the effects on lower orders and whether a civilized … and of all the declarations that suggest that international diplomacy is now based on gentlemen’s agreements, the law of the strongest remains the only valid rule. By exploiting the ambiguities of boxing, which could be perceived as …
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