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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452995703321

Autore

Monti Daniel J

Titolo

Engaging strangers [[electronic resource] ] : civil rites, civic capitalism, and public order in Boston / / Daniel J. Monti, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-61147-592-9

1-299-18493-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

307.7609744/61

Soggetti

City and town life - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Community life - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Strangers - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Courtesy - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Conduct of life - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Civil society - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Capitalism - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Social classes - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Electronic books.

Boston (Mass.) Social conditions

Boston (Mass.) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword: Engaging Strangers and the Banality of Civility / by Zane Miller -- "Lost in Boston" -- Boston by the Numbers -- Brahmins Don't Eat Here Anymore -- Ritualized Crises and Institutional Strangers -- Neighbors Make Good Fences -- The Enchanted Trolley Tour -- "At First We Were Just Civic Friends" -- A Crowded Mother's Day on the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge -- Boston's Tribes -- The Leisure of the Theory Class.

Sommario/riassunto

Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. explores how the people of Boston have learned to practice a more congenial and respectful set of civic virtues. Monti provides a model for civic conduct for the rest of America to



study and follow, showing how the cultural ideals we share and the civic-minded practices we follow in and out of the business world reflect a mix of liberal and conservative values that work for all of us. </sp