| Early Modern Civil Discourses 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Richards, J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403917361 ISBN-13: 9781403917362 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scottish--among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles--by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives "civil" and "barbarous" in cultural and colonial encounters. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Modern - 17th Century |
| Dewey: 301.094 |
| LCCN: 2003051774 |
| Series: Early Modern Literature in History |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.64" W x 9.04" (0.85 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives 'civil' and 'barbarous' in cultural and colonial encounters. |