| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
274 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264) and index. |
| Contents |
Public life -- Manners, morals, and class in modern America -- The rise of mobility and the breakdown of public behavior -- Etiquette and power in the American workplace -- Rituals and rites of passage -- Mass media, mass communications, mass mannerlessness -- Private life -- The triumph of lifestyle -- Etiquette, race, and gender -- Parents, children, and discipline -- Manners and sex in the Nineties -- Manners for the Millennium. |
| Subject |
Etiquette -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
0965041506 |
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0312204329 |
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