Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 : a transnational perspective /: a transnational perspective. (2016)
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- Book
- Title:
- Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 : a transnational perspective /: a transnational perspective. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 : a transnational perspective
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Peter Borsay and Jan Hein Furnée.
- Editors:
- Borsay, Peter
Furnée, Jan Hein - Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Series information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of contributors; General editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; I Introduction; Leisure history: some problems and challenges; Vectors of transmission; The urban factor; The Enlightenment and nationalism; Notes; I Charting the flows: institutions and genres; 2 Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-1850; Entangled commercial art venues: London and Paris, new capitals of the art market Art halls and exhibitions run by cultural associationsMajor national and international institutions and exhibitions; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre ...; Emotions for everyone; Boulevard plays; The melodrama industry; European circulation and adaptation: Britain and Italy; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission; The transformation of English sports; Sports on the European continent; From games to sports; Six explanations; Conclusion; Notes II Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures5 Georgian Bath: a transnational culture; Foreign influences; Vectors of transmission; Resistance, adaptation and nationalism; Notes; 6 Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities; The court as the measure of all music; Music, cosmopolitanism andCover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Series information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of contributors; General editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; I Introduction; Leisure history: some problems and challenges; Vectors of transmission; The urban factor; The Enlightenment and nationalism; Notes; I Charting the flows: institutions and genres; 2 Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-1850; Entangled commercial art venues: London and Paris, new capitals of the art market Art halls and exhibitions run by cultural associationsMajor national and international institutions and exhibitions; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre ...; Emotions for everyone; Boulevard plays; The melodrama industry; European circulation and adaptation: Britain and Italy; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission; The transformation of English sports; Sports on the European continent; From games to sports; Six explanations; Conclusion; Notes II Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures5 Georgian Bath: a transnational culture; Foreign influences; Vectors of transmission; Resistance, adaptation and nationalism; Notes; 6 Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities; The court as the measure of all music; Music, cosmopolitanism and the public sphere; The politics of language; Shifting cultural outlooks: the French and Dutch regimes; In search of a Belgian national and cultural identity; Growing Flemish resentment; Conclusion; Notes 7 Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth-nineteenth ...Theatres; Concerts and balls; Cafés and restaurants; Parks and promenades; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul; Coffeehouses in Europe and the Ottoman Empire: a diverging tradition?; Patrons and clients; Sociability and politics; 'Europe' in the Istanbul coffeehouse; Notes; III Towards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture; 9 The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London; Fixing norms: the normative literature Policing leisureConclusion; Notes; 10 City of pleasure or ville des plaisirs? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through ...; Social distinctions; Gendered leisure towns; National identities; Conclusion; Notes; 11 The role of inland spas as sites of transnational cultural exchange in the production of European ...; The making of the spas: 1750-1790; The making of resort culture: 1790s-1840s; The making of the leisure resorts: 1850-1870; Conclusion; Notes; 12 Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780-18701; The rise and spread of the British seaside resort … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 306.4812094
Social & Cultural History
Leisure class -- History -- 18th century
Leisure class -- History -- 19th century
Leisure -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Leisure -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
Leisure
Leisure class
HISTORY -- Social History
Europe
Electronic books
History
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781784997045
1784997048 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780719089695
0719089697 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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