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Rudeness & civility : manners in nineteenth-century urban America

On etiquette and manners in the United States.

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  • "Rudeness and civility"@en
  • "Savoir-vivre et société aux Etats-Unis"

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  • "On etiquette and manners in the United States."@en
  • "Examines nineteenth century etiquette books to determine what manners were like during the period, and looks at their conection with class, ideology, and behavior."@en
  • "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."@en

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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Rudeness & civility manners in nineteenth-century urban America"
  • "Rudeness & civility : manners in nineteenth-century urban America"
  • "Rudeness & civility : manners in nineteenth-century urban America"@en
  • "Les Bonnes manières : savoir-vivre et société aux Etats-Unis"
  • "Rudeness and civility : manners in Nineteenth-Century urban America"
  • "Rudeness and civility manners in nineteenth-century urban america"@en