Bowing to Necessities
A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860
Seiten
2002
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-515408-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-515408-5 (ISBN)
Anglo-Americans wrestled with cultural contradictions as they shifted from the patriarchal society of the 17th-century to the class democracy of the mid-19th century. This title argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these problems just as these power relations underwent challenges.
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 underwent challenges. Analysing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
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 underwent challenges. Analysing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR C. Dallett Hemphill is Professor of History at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.
PART I. HIERARCHY: MANNERS IN A VERTICAL SOCIAL ORDER, 1620-1740 ; PART II. REVOLUTION: AN OPENING OF POSSIBILITIES, 1740-1820 ; PART III. RESOLUTION: MANNERS FOR DEMOCRATS, 1820-1860
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.5.2002 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 458 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-515408-8 / 0195154088 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-515408-5 / 9780195154085 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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