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Author Monti, Daniel J.

Title Engaging strangers [electronic resource] : civil rites, civic capitalism, and public order in Boston / Daniel J. Monti, Jr.

Imprint Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxiv, 281 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword: Engaging Strangers and the Banality of Civility / by Zane Miller -- "Lost in Boston" -- Boston by the Numbers -- Brahmins Don't Eat Here Anymore -- Ritualized Crises and Institutional Strangers -- Neighbors Make Good Fences -- The Enchanted Trolley Tour -- "At First We Were Just Civic Friends" -- A Crowded Mother's Day on the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge -- Boston's Tribes -- The Leisure of the Theory Class.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Community life -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Strangers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Courtesy -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Conduct of life -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Civil society -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Social classes -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
Boston (Mass.) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781611475913 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9781611475920 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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