Rudeness & Civility Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America by Kasson, John F

NY: Hill & Wang, 1990. Hardcover_clothspine. Used - VeryGood/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.25". 305 indexed pgs. Plum boards. Red cloth spine w/gilt letters. Book design by Tere LoPrete. Jacket design by Holland MacDonald Design Studio. Author photo: Peter Filene. Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography of ettiquete Books, 1800-1910; Sources of Illustration; 50 B&W illustrations. Spine straight, binding tight, pages have foxing on edges. Stains to insided flaps of DJ. Stain to bottom of back board. Minimum foxing to inside covers. 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.

NY: Hill And Wang (1990). Book club edition; small 4to.; cloth backed boards, 305 pages; hardcover; b/w illustrations; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacket.

Hill and Wang 1990,. hbk BOMC xii. 305pp ISBN: 0809034700 excellent in sleeve protected dj text clean tight as new