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UNINA9910820096703321 |
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Autore |
Monti Daniel J |
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Titolo |
Engaging strangers : civil rites, civic capitalism, and public order in Boston / / Daniel J. Monti, Jr |
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Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-61147-592-9 |
1-299-18493-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Boston (Mass.) Social conditions |
Boston (Mass.) Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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