A Night at the Inn
Space, Place, and the Elite Experience of Empire, 1650–1850
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 June 2026
- ISBN 9780198867050
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 240x162x20 mm
- Weight 607 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolkit of nation and empire.
MoreLong description:
A bold reinterpretation of Georgian Britian and North America that puts inns at the heart of the imperial project.
Inns were ubiquitous across the Anglo-American world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, inn going was universal among the elite citizens of that world and they feature prominently in contemporary accounts and literature as places of rest, refreshment, and good cheer.
A Night at the Inn follows the experiences of an elite traveller on a journey through the North Atlantic world. What becomes clear along the way is that inns were much more than somewhere for a drink, a meal and a bed for the night; they played a central role in what was first a British, later Anglophone, process of national and imperial placemaking. Whether in Scotland, Virginia, or Jamaica, 'principal inns' contained the useful spaces and things that society's ruling elites needed to establish and maintain power. Moreover, familiar in their sameness, from one inn to the next the material world experienced inside principal inns shaped elite inn-goers' perceptions of place, confirming that here - wherever here was - was somewhere familiar, somewhere 'civilised', somewhere British.
Highly illustrated and drawing on extensive field studies, archival and literary sources, A Night at the Inn offers a new reading of the everyday places and spaces that made and sustained the British Empire, and whose legacies continue to reverberate today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
On the Road
The Right Sort of Inn
Finding the Right Inn
The Building Is the Sign
On Arrival at the Inn
Crossing the Threshold
The Company and the Parlour
REF!
Meanwhile, Elsewhere at the Inn
And So to Bed
Epilogue: The Fate of Inns
Introduction
On the Road
The Right Sort of Inn
Finding the Right Inn
The Building Is the Sign
On Arrival at the Inn
Crossing the Threshold
The Company and the Parlour
Good Cheer
Meanwhile, Elsewhere at the Inn
And So to Bed
Epilogue: The Fate of Inns
