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Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860
Bowing to Necessities A History of Manners in America 16201860
Author: C. Dallett Hemphill
Anglo-Americans encountered profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the seventeenth-century hierarchical and patriarchal society of the frontier to the modern and multi-class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could the tradition of inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilder...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195125573
ISBN-10: 0195125576
Publication Date: 8/26/1999
Pages: 310
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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