{"product_id":"tea-sets-and-tyranny-9780812248609","title":"Tea Sets and Tyranny","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTea Sets and Tyranny offers a political history of politeness in early America, from its origins in the late seventeenth century to its remaking in the age of the Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003eTea Sets and Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between ideas about power and politeness, a social value that celebrated restraint and refinement. Ranging from Indian agents to colonial governors to plantation mistresses, Steven Bullock's fascinating cast of characters takes us into a world in which unfettered personal and political power yields to the practices of civility. A provocative and persuasive reinterpretation of British subjects as they became American citizens through the pursuit of politeness.\" * Mary Kelley, University of Michigan *\u003cbr\u003e\"In a series of fascinating cameos, Steven Bullock illuminates the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century culture of politeness, benevolence, and sympathy that reshaped a politics of violent hierarchy into one of restrained moderation. His erudite account of the role of emotion in the governing styles of central figures in the Anglo-American gentry will stand with the most evocative work that we have on power and personality in this formative epoch.\" * John Brooke, The Ohio State University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on a fascinating array of life stories, Steven C. Bullock examines the hidden patterns behind a wide range of social and political interactions in colonial British America. More than a code of elite social norms, 'politeness' expressed a deeply embedded set of cultural assumptions about colonial hierarchies of race, gender, and political authority. \u003ci\u003eTea Sets and Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e provides a whole new context for understanding the underlying forces that contributed to the coming of the American Revolution.\" * Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405728817495,"sku":"9780812248609","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tea-sets-and-tyranny-9780812248609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}