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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The Art of Pleasing, Or The American Lady and Gentleman's Book of Etiquette
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The Art of Pleasing
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Art of Pleasing
Author: H. M. Rulison
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Art of Pleasing
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Bowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195154088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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 reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195154088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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 reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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American national trade bibliography.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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American national trade bibliography.
American Cool
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814779794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814779794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion
Author: Margaret Cockburn Conkling
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Rituals of Dinner
Author: Margaret Visser
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140170790
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual. "Read this book. You'll never look at a table knife the same way again."—The New York Times.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140170790
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual. "Read this book. You'll never look at a table knife the same way again."—The New York Times.