Bowing to Necessities

A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860

C. Dallett Hemphill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1999
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-512557-3 (ISBN)

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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. This study works through two centuries of conduct literature, illuminating class, gender and age relations along the way.

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.

C. Dallett Hemphill is Professor of History at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.

Introduction
Part I. Hierarchy: Manners in a Vertical Social Order, 1620-1740
Ch. 1. Manners for Gentlemen
Ch. 2. Manners Over Minors
Ch. 3. Manners Maketh Men
Part II. Revolution: An Opening of Possibilities, 1740-1820
Ch. 4. Middle Class Riding
Ch. 5. Youth Rising
Ch. 6. Women Rising
Part III. Resolution: Manners for Democrats, 1820-1860
Ch. 7. Manners for the Middle Class
Ch. 8. Manners for Adults
Ch. 9. Ladies First?
Conclusion
Table: Conduct Works: Author/Audience Statistics
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.1999
Zusatzinfo	1 table
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	242 x 165 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-512557-6 / 0195125576
ISBN-13	978-0-19-512557-3 / 9780195125573
Zustand	Neuware