"...500 toasts and sentiments for everyboy, and their proper mode of introduction. How to use wine at table, with rules for judging the quality of wine, and rul
With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century.
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century fro