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Bowing to necessities : a history of manners in America, 1620-1860 /
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I
- Hierarchy: manners in a vertical social order, 1620-1740. Manners for gentlemen Manners over minors Manners maketh men Part II
- Revolution: an opening of possibilities, 1740-1820. Middle class rising Youth rising Women rising Part III
- Resolution: manners for democrats, 1820-1860. Manners for the middle class Manners for adults Ladies first?