In pursuit of civility : manners and civilization in early modern England
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In pursuit of civility : manners and civilization in early modern England
(The Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures)
Brandeis University Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (p. [261]-348) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9781512602807
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.
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: pbk ISBN 9781512602814
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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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by David Katz * Preface * Introduction * CIVIL BEHAVIOR * The Chronology of Manners * Manners and Gentility * Refinement * MANNERS AND THE SOCIAL ORDER * The Social Hierarchy * The Topography of Manners * The Civility of the Middling Sort * The Manners of the People * Civilizing Agents * Plebeian Civility * THE CIVILIZED CONDITION * Civil Society * Civilized Warfare * A Civilized Compassion * Civilized Manners * The Fruits of Civility * THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION * The Ascent to Civility * Barbarous Neighbours * EXPORTING CIVILITY * Confronting the Barbarians * Civilizing by Force * Inventing Race * Fighting and Enslaving * CIVILIZATION RECONSIDERED * Cultural Relativism * Another Kind of Civility * The Civilizing Mission Disputed * The Defects of Civilization * Civilization Rejected * CHANGING MODES OF CIVILITY * Xenophobic Masculinity * Manners and Morality * The Quaker Challenge * Democratic Civility * The Future of Manners * Note on References * Abbreviations * Notes * Index
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