Patterns of Middle Class Conduct in Nineteenth-Century Spain and Latin America: The Role of Emulation
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The various texts on courtesy, manners, etiquette, and taste—savoire vivre in French and urbanidad in the Hispanic tradition—constitute an essential source for the study of the evolution of social conduct. These publications reflect the systematization of social practices prevalent in a given place at a given time and, above all, they are the testimonies of its idealization transmitted by those who can be considered speakers of dominant society. In recent years scholars from a range of fields in the social sciences and humanities are using these sources to study historical connections between the evolution of manners and social change.
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