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An Empire of Manners: The Refinement of British America in Atlantic Perspective - The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. By Richard L. Bushman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992; Vintage Books, 1993. Pp. xix + 504. $40.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). - Women before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789. By Cornelia Hughes Dayton. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press/Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1995. Pp. xv + 382. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). - Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America. By David S. Shields. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press/Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1997. Pp. xxxiii + 348. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). - In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press/Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1995. Pp. xiii + 351. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). - Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. By David D. Hall. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Pp. 195. $45.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Eliga H. Gould
Eliga H. Gould*
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University of New Hampshire
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 1: Anglo-American Puritanisms , January 2000 , pp. 114 - 122
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