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 circulated manuscripts -- David Shields...
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 circulated manuscripts -- David Shields...