Bowing to necessities : a history of manners in America, 1620-1860 / C. Dallett Hemphill

Englisch

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

x, 310 p ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-300) and index

Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Hemphill, C. Dallett, 1959-: Bowing to necessities. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Part I -- Hierarchy: manners in a vertical social order, 1620-1740.Manners for gentlemenManners over minorsManners maketh menPart II --Revolution: an opening of possibilities, 1740-1820.Middle class risingYouth risingWomen risingPart III -- Resolution: manners for democrats, 1820-1860.Manners for the middle classManners for adultsLadies first?

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Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BJ1853

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 395.0973; ; 395/.0973;

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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?

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 leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus

 

Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005

Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary

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