Richard Ansell

Complete Gentlemen

Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780197267271
• ISBN-10: 0197267270
• Artikelnr.: 63660404

Autorenporträt

Richard Ansell is a historian of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, focusing on travel to continental Europe. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford. He held the Irish Government Senior Scholarship at Oxford and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester, where he is currently a Research Associate. Alongside educational travel, he is now working on travelling servants and British encounters with Spain. His research has appeared in the Historical Journal, English Historical Review and several edited collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Before Travel
2: Finances, Social Standing and the 'Grand Tour'
3: Learning Abroad
4: Networking Abroad
5: Returns from Travel
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index