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382 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780807846568
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C
Publication date: 26 May 1997
Description
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 circul...
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382 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780807846568
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C
Publication date: 26 May 1997
Description
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 circul...