British Clubs and Societies, 1580-1800
The Origins of an Associational World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10017229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Bailey (0000-0002-5729-9547, University of Manitoba, corresponding author), Peter Clark (0000-0003-1001-9226, University of Manitoba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1054-1054 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2700417 |
| OpenAlex | W2460870151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
For all his reputed hauteur, the true English gentleman was expected to be “clubbable.” Yet across a wider reach of classes, the British (like Americans) have proved themselves a nation of joiners, as bell ringers or bowlers, philanthropists or reformers, Freemasons or Odd Fellows, cognoscenti or eccentrics. In this prodigiously well packed, engrossing, and important book, Peter Clark claims a new sig nifi cance for the swarming world of voluntary associations as a vital social resource in Britain's passage to modernity. From London's Society of Dilettanti to Liverpool's Ugly Face Clubb (a selfelected visible minority), associational life generated fraternity, conferred identity, and built commercial and professional networks in an increasingly mobile and anonymous urbanizing society. Mutual aid societies formed the largest category of association, but common to all was a ritualized sociability, determinedly festive, often boozy, and almost exclusively masculine. By 1800, when this associational culture came of age, perhaps 1 in 3 males held membership
Aesthetics · Art · Civility · Face (sociological concept · Fraternity · Genealogy · Identity (music · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Voluntary association · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |