Author : Mary Cable
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN :
The behavior of Americans from the Jamestown Colony in 1620 to the Americans of today is presented in text and illustrated with paintings, photographs, and drawings.
Author : Fiona Whelan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1315524880
How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us believe – but how much truth is there in this notion? This book seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining medieval society through rules of conduct, and specifically through the lens of a medieval Latin text entitled The Book of the Civilised Man – or Urbanus magnus – which is attributed to Daniel of Beccles. Urbanus magnus is a twelfth-century poem of almost 3,000 lines which comprehensively surveys the day-to-day life of medieval society, including issues such as moral behaviour, friendship, marriage, hospitality, table manners, and diet. Currently, it is a neglected source for the social and cultural history of daily life in medieval England, but by incorporating modern ideas of disgust and taboo, and merging anthropology, sociology, and archaeology with history, this book aims to bring it to the fore, and to show that medieval people did have standards of behaviour. Although they may seem remote to modern ‘civilised’ people, there is both continuity and change in human behaviour throughout the centuries.
Author : Wyger Velema
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004161910
The notion of being freeborn republicans bound the eighteenth-century Dutch together. Yet beneath this general label, many fundamental differences existed. This book explores the varieties of eighteenth-century Dutch republicanism. It thereby significantly contributes to our understanding of a crucial period in the development of Dutch political thought.
Author : Susan Mokhberi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0190884819
The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
Author : Alan Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 1999-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521646895
This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.
Author : Nicholas Tyacke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199510146
Volume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth century, a period when both institutionally and intellectually the University was expanding. Oxford and its University, moreover, had a major role to play in the tumultuous religious and political eventsof the century: the Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration. In this volume, leading experts in several fields combine to present a comprehensive and authoritative analysis and overview of the rich pattern of intellectual, political, and cultural life in seventeenth-century Oxford.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1891
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mark Caldwell
Publisher : Picador
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1466889640
A funny and provocative cultural history of class, manners, and the decline of civility In his smart and thought provoking new book, literary/social critic Mark Caldwell gives us a history of the demise of manners and charts the progress of an epidemic of rudeness in America. The breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette watchdogs, like Miss Manners and Martha Stewart, with which we defend ourselves against an onslaught of nastiness. But Caldwell demonstrates that the foundations of etiquette actually began to corrode several centuries ago with the blurring of class lines. Touching on aspects of both our public and private lives, including work, family, and sex, A Short History of Rudeness examines how the rules of our behaviour have changed and explains why, no matter how hard we try, we can never return to a golden era of manners and mores.
Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1040282857
Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on: periodization politics consumerism intellectual life sexuality empire The Victorian Studies Reader is a rich resource, essential for all those studying this important period of history.
