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  • Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

    This collection challenges the dominant understandings of 18th-century sociability by placing dance, and the training and movement of the body, at its core. Rather than thinking of dance and music as peripheral ornaments to the complex business of Enlightenment society, it highlights them as important vehicles for the development and dissemination of the ideas and practices that shaped people's ... Read more

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  • Bath and Beyond

    The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room

    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
    This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century.Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this book looks forward into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of the chapters concern aspects of the city of Bath, the book stretches beyond Bath’s confines, taking in comparative British towns such as Tunbridge Wells, European ... Read more

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  • The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

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  • The Inner Life of Empires

    An Eighteenth-Century History

    The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century familyThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who ... Read more

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