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Civil Tongues And Polite Letters In British America
David S. Shields

Civil Tongues And Polite Letters In British America

The University of North Carolina Press (May 26, 1997)
9780807846568
| Paperback
384 pages | 157 x 236 mm | English
Dewey 306.0973
LC Classification E162 .S555 1997
LC Control No. 96037377

Genre

  • English Language

Subject

  • Associations, Institutions, Etc
  • Associations, Institutions, Etc - United States - History
  • Associations, Institutions, Etc./ United States/ History
  • English Language
  • English Language - United States - Discourse Analysis

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In urban areas from Boston to Charleston, the elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in a variety of private venues to communicate and interact. David Shields looks into the taverns, tea rooms, salons, coffee houses, card

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