Author: Thomas Roderick DewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
A Digest of the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations
Author: Thomas Roderick DewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
In Pursuit of Civility
Author: Keith ThomasPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512602825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher: London : H. G. Bohn
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians with Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkabletribes Now Existing Geo. Catlin
Author: Illustrations of the Manners Customs and Condition of the North American Indians with Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Evening Entertainments, Or, Delineations of the Manners and Customs of Various Nations
Author: Georges-Bernard DeppingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Under the Open Sky
Author: Samuel Christian SchmuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Author: George CATLIN