Chapter 7 Wooden shoes and Wellington boots
This 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 bec...
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| description | This 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-713012025-08-13T14:12:29Z Chapter 7 Wooden shoes and Wellington boots McCormack, Matthew Ages, Christopher, Contemporary, Everyday, Fletcher, Middle, Objects, Political, World thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history This 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. 2021-07-15T02:01:15Z 2021-07-15T02:01:15Z 2021-07-14T09:48:35Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50010 9780367706616 9780367706609 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71301 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50010/1/9781003147428_oachapter7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50010/1/9781003147428_oachapter7.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003147428-7 10.4324/9781003147428-7 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Everyday Political Objects University of Northampton 143e059c-d417-47c8-8c3a-9be803199eab 9780367706616 9780367706609 Routledge 17 open access |
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