Bowing to Necessities
A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:30th Sep '99
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How men and women interact, the respect young show old and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. Bowing To Necessities is the chronologically most wide-ranging study, covering the long period of 1620 to 1860, of its kind. Working through two centuries of conduct literature, Professor Hemphill provides a wonderful retelling of American history to the Civil War, illuminating crucial connections between evolving class, gender, and age relations along the way.
Hemphill makes important and original contributions to debates on our understandings of the workings of class and gender in America * American Historical Review *
Hemphill's keen sensitivity to the ways in which the code of manners changed over time and varied with class, age, and gender enables her to detect innovations that signal real social and cultural shifts. Her findings shed considerable light on current debates among historians * American Historical Review *
ISBN: 9780195125573
Dimensions: 165mm x 242mm x 28mm
Weight: 626g
320 pages