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Informationen zum Autor Peter Borsay is a Professor of History at Aberystwyth UniversityJan Hein Furnée is Professor of European Cultural History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Klappentext Combines research on a wide variety of leisure activities in the early modern and modern periods, providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history. Zusammenfassung Combines research on a wide variety of leisure activities in the early modern and modern periods! providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Peter Borsay and Jan Hein FurnéeCharting the flows: institutions and genres1. Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-50 - J. Pedro Lorente2. Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre and experience, 1780-1830 - Carlotta Sorba3. Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission - Peter ClarkProcesses of selection and adaptation: actors and structures4. Georgian Bath: a transnational culture - Peter Borsay5. Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities - Koen Buyens6. Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries - Dag Lindström7. Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul - Cengiz KirliTowards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture8. The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London - Laurent Turcot9. City of pleasure or 'ville des plaisirs'? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing, 1700-1820 - Clarisse Coulomb10. The role of inland spas in the production of European leisure culture, 1750-1870 - Jill Stewart11. Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780-1870 - John K. WaltonIndex...
