Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Genealogy of Western Courtesy and Civility
6. 2. From Barbarism to Courtly Manners 21
7. 3. Secular Civility in the Renaissance 51
8. 4. Shifts in Identity and Awareness: Protestantism and the Enlightenment 84
9. 5. French Court Society, the French Revolution, and the Paradoxes of French Civility 98
10. 6. England and the Victorian Ethic 141
11. 7. The American Experience: Democracy and Informal Civility 211
12. Part II. The Rise of the Late-Modern American Self
13. 8. Conformity, Opposition, and Identity 267
14. Part III. The Multifaceted Anatomy of Civility
15. 9. Towards a Cultural Sociology of Civility 341
16. Part IV. Contemporary French, American, and English Civility and Interaction
17. 10. A Comparative Field Study of France, America, and England 427
18. Part V. Summing Up
19. 11. Civilizing and Recivilizing Processes 495
20. Bibliography 531
21. Index 573