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Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

Paperback

Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

AnthropologyColonial Period (1600-1775)General World History

ISBN10: 0807846562
ISBN13: 9780807846568
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Published: May 26 1997
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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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Colonial Period (1600-1775)