Item #13007 Rudeness & Civility Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America. John F. Kasson.

Rudeness & Civility Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

NY: Hill & Wang, 1990. Hardcover_clothspine. 6.25"x9.25". 305 indexed pgs. Plum boards. Red cloth spine w/gilt letters. Book design by Tere LoPrete. Jacket design by Holland MacDonald Design Studio. Author photo: Peter Filene. Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography of
ettiquete Books, 1800-1910; Sources of Illustration; 50 B&W illustrations. Spine straight, binding tight, pages have foxing on edges. Stains to insided flaps of DJ. Stain to bottom of back board. Minimum foxing to inside covers. Used - VeryGood / VeryGood. Item #13007
ISBN: 0809034700

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.

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