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Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) [Paperback] Shields, David S.
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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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