Bowing to Necessities
A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860
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 thesocially 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-515408-5
- EAN: 9780195154085
- Produktnummer: 22663675
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.9 cm 451 g
- Gewicht: 451
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ABOUT THE AUTHORC. Dallett Hemphill is Professor of History at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.
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