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With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society.Kasson, John F. is the author of 'Rudeness & Civility Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America', published 1991 under ISBN 9780374522995 and ISBN 0374522995.
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