Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America by David S. Shields

Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

David S. Shields

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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 circul...

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