{"product_id":"leisure-cultures-in-urban-europe-c-17001870-9780719089695","title":"Leisure cultures in urban Europe c.17001870","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - Peter Borsay and Jan Hein Furnee Charting the flows: institutions and genres 1. Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-50 - J. Pedro Lorente 2. Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre and experience, 1780-1830 - Carlotta Sorba 3. Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission - Peter Clark Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures 4. Georgian Bath: a transnational culture - Peter Borsay 5. Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities - Koen Buyens 6. Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries - Dag Lindstrom 7. Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul - Cengiz Kirli Towards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture 8. The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London - Laurent Turcot 9. City of pleasure or 'ville des plaisirs'? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing, 1700-1820 - Clarisse Coulomb 10. The role of inland spas in the production of European leisure culture, 1750-1870 - Jill Stewart 11. Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780-1870 - John K. Walton Index","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037344006487,"sku":"9780719089695","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719089695.jpg?v=1750935372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leisure-cultures-in-urban-europe-c-17001870-9780719089695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}