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Civility : A Cultural History /
"Cut off in traffic? Bumped without apology on the subway? Forced to listen to a profane conversation in a public space? In today's Western societies, many feel that there has been a noticeable and marked decrease in mutual consideration in both public and private settings. Are we less civ...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2009
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- pt. I Genealogy of Western Courtesy and Civility
- 2. From Barbarism to Courtly Manners
- 3. Secular Civility in the Renaissance
- 4. Shifts in Identity and Awareness: Protestantism and the Enlightenment
- 5. French Court Society, the French Revolution, and the Paradoxes of French Civility
- 6. England and the Victorian Ethic
- 7. American Experience: Democracy and Informal Civility
- pt. II Rise of the Late-Modern American Self
- 8. Conformity, Opposition, and Identity
- pt. III Multifaceted Anatomy of Civility
- 9. Towards a Cultural Sociology of Civility
- pt. IV Contemporary French, American, and English Civility and Interaction
- 10. Comparative Field Study of France, America, and England
- pt. V Summing Up
- 11. Civilizing and Recivilizing Processes.