Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Title: Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Author: John F Kasson
ISBN: 9780374522995
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
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Publisher Description:

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.