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

Author:: Monti, Daniel J., Jr., 1949-
Published:: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2013]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 281 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

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.

Subject(s):

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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Electronic books

ISBN:

9781611475913 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9781611475920 (electronic)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.

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