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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: 9780756779955
ISBN-10: 0756779952
Pages: 310
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Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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