Civil tongues and polite letters in british america
(2012)

Nonfiction

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Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2012
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780807838341 (electronic bk.) MWT11840271, 0807838349 (electronic bk.) 11840271
LANGUAGE
English
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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

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