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dc.contributor.authorMcCormack, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-14T09:48:35Z
dc.date.available2021-07-14T09:48:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50010
dc.description.abstractThis chapter therefore makes a case for a political history of shoes, by bringing together these two rich fields. It will begin by thinking about the nature of political culture in the eighteenth century, where political virtue was evaluated in highly moral and gendered terms, and where shoes became the focus of debates about masculinity and citizenship. It will then turn its attention to citizenship in a national sense, to think about how certain types of leather shoes came to be seen as synonymous with Britishness, and how wearing them informed what it meant to live as a ‘Briton.’ Debates about politics and gender were inseparable from those on social class, and shoes worn by different social classes were loaded with political meaning. They also give us an insight into how people from different social classes moved and comported themselves. Focusing on the history of shoes in these ways can therefore show how embodiment should be central to our understanding of the practice of politics in eighteenth-century Britain.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world historyen_US
dc.subject.otherAges, Christopher, Contemporary, Everyday, Fletcher, Middle, Objects, Political, Worlden_US
dc.titleChapter 7 Wooden shoes and Wellington bootsen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe politics of footwear in Georgian Britainen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003147428-7en_US
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oapen.relation.isPartOfBooka9a5645b-117c-46f1-90ec-06d725b3b248en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy143e059c-d417-47c8-8c3a-9be803199eaben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367706616en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367706609en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages17en_US


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