Dr Benet Davetian is chair and associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) and director of the Civility Institute. He is listed in Canada‘s Who‘s Who for his accomplishments in literature and the social sciences.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Genealogy of Western Courtesy and CivilityFrom Barbarism to Courtly MannersSecular Civility in the RenaissanceShifts in Identity and Awareness: Protestantism and the EnlightenmentFrench Court Society, the French Revolution, and the Paradoxes of French CivilityEngland and the Victorian EthicThe American Experience: Democracy and Informal CivilityPart II: The Rise of the Late-Modern American SelfConformity, Opposition, and IdentityPart III: The Multifaceted Anatomy of CivilityTowards a Cultural Sociology of Civility Part IV: Contemporary French, American, and English Civility and InteractionA Comparative Field Study of France, America, and EnglandPart V: Summing UpCivilizing and Recivilizing ProcessesBibliographyIndex

Dr Benet Davetian is chair and associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) and director of the Civility Institute. He is listed in Canada‘s Who‘s Who for his accomplishments in literature and the social sciences.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Genealogy of Western Courtesy and CivilityFrom Barbarism to Courtly MannersSecular Civility in the RenaissanceShifts in Identity and Awareness: Protestantism and the EnlightenmentFrench Court Society, the French Revolution, and the Paradoxes of French CivilityEngland and the Victorian EthicThe American Experience: Democracy and Informal CivilityPart II: The Rise of the Late-Modern American SelfConformity, Opposition, and IdentityPart III: The Multifaceted Anatomy of CivilityTowards a Cultural Sociology of Civility Part IV: Contemporary French, American, and English Civility and InteractionA Comparative Field Study of France, America, and EnglandPart V: Summing UpCivilizing and Recivilizing ProcessesBibliographyIndex