Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban

Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

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.
Country USA
Brand Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Manufacturer Hill and Wang
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1991-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780374522995

Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America