Archaeology of Manners The Polite World of the Merchant Elite in Colonial Masssachusetts

This book employs historical archaeological evidence to demonstrate how polite rituals reproduced the social and material world of commerce in colonial Massachusetts. The author situates artifacts within the social contexts descibed in contemporary letters and diaries and depicted in literature and art and demonstrates how the New English merchants selected and adapted contemporary British manners to create a new American form of polite behavior.Goodwin, Lorinda B. R. is the author of 'Archaeology of Manners The Polite World of the Merchant Elite in Colonial Masssachusetts' with ISBN 9780306461569 and ISBN 0306461560.