Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
John F. Kasson$20.39
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With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/01/1991
ISBN: 9780374522995
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d