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 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-028431-2
- EAN: 9780190284312
- Produktnummer: 18398612
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'574 KB
Über den Autor
C. Dallett Hemphill is Professor of History at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.
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