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A short history of rudeness : manners, morals, and misbehavior in modern America  Cover Image Book Book

A short history of rudeness : manners, morals, and misbehavior in modern America / Mark Caldwell.

Caldwell, Mark. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0312204329
  • Physical Description: 274 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Picador USA, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
United States > Social life and customs.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library BJ 1853 .C23 1999 30530157 General Collection Available -

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