This article brings together three aspects of early modern urban life: the later stages of the urban renaissance, the consumer revolution and horse racing. Those towns identified as having an effectively commercialized ‘race week’ between 1750 and 1805 challenge notions of any trickle-down effect from London. Successful organization and funding came largely from co-operation rather than division between the county aristocracy and gentry and the urban middling sort. Both groups attended, while race weeks were sufficiently popular for many rural and urban workers to sacrifice production time for the allure of their leisure experiences. Racecourse consumer space, with its booths, tents and stands, allowed spectators to enjoy either cross-class mixing or increased social differentiation, the latter most especially on the permanent stone grandstands, an innovation of the period.

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农村城市：赛马场、看台和城市休闲的商业化消费，1750-1805

本文汇集了早期现代城市生活的三个方面：城市复兴的后期、消费革命和赛马。那些被确定为在 1750 年至 1805 年间有效商业化的“比赛周”的城镇挑战了来自伦敦的任何涓滴效应的概念。成功的组织和资金主要来自于郡县贵族和城市中产阶级之间的合作，而不是分工。两组都参加了比赛，而比赛周对于许多农村和城市工人来说非常受欢迎，他们牺牲了生产时间来享受他们的休闲体验。赛马场消费空间，其展位、帐篷和看台，让观众可以享受跨阶级的混合或增加的社会差异，后者尤其是在永久性的石头看台上，