Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America by John F. Kasson

Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

John F. Kasson

320 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 birthri...

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