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CIVIL TONGUES AND POLITE LETTERS IN BRITISH AMERICA IBD

OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE AND UNC PR
05 / 1997
9780807846568
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Sinopsis

In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various ?texts? —, conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts —, David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.

PVP
60,55