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Sociability and cosmopolitanism : social bonds on the fringes of the Enlightenment / edited by Scott Breuninger and David Burrow.

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Sociability and cosmopolitanism : social bonds on the fringes of the Enlightenment / edited by Scott Breuninger and David Burrow.
Publication
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Breuninger, Scott.
  • Burrow, David, Prof.
Description
xii, 226 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society."--Publisher's website.
Series Statement
Enlightenment world ; no. 24
Uniform Title
Enlightenment world ; no. 24.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1680-1790
  • Geschichte 1783-1865
  • 1700-1865
  • Enlightenment > Europe
  • Enlightenment > United States
  • Social interaction > History > 18th century
  • Cosmopolitanism > History > 18th century
  • Europe > Civilization > 18th century
  • United States > Civilization > 1783-1865
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Scott Breuninger -- European peripheries. Science, religion, and sociability in early eighteenth-century Irish thought / Scott Breuninger -- Visualizing Spain's enlightenment: the marginal universality of deafness / Benjamin Fraser -- Sociability and cosmopolitanism in eighteenth-century Venice: European travelers and Venetian women's casinos / Marianna D'Ezio -- Eurasian borders. At home in a world of fictions: commercial sociability in Montesquieu's Persian letters / Mark Nixon -- Prince M.M. Shcherbatov's critique of the 'open table' and the dynamics of Russian sociability / David Burrow -- The Atlantic world. Benjamin Vaughan on commerce and international harmony in the eighteenth century / Andrew Hamilton -- 'Self-created societies': sociability and statehood in the Pittsburgh enlightenment / Leonard von Morzé -- The margins of enlightenment: Benjamin Rush, the rural world and sociability in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania / Michael McCoy.
ISBN
  • 9781848932623 (hbk.)
  • 1848932626 (hbk.)
  • 9781848932630 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1848932634 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 756282591
  • SCSB-11498254
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library