A sort of fun look at what sorts of things were considered rude or just beyond the pale and what other things were just not as big a deal back then as they are now. Goodman goes into topics like sex, drugs (well, alcohol) and fighting and looks at old documents, primarily court records and wills but also a few books published at the time, and talks about what “behaving badly” at that time, really looked like. A lot of differentials between the genders which is not that surprising. I learned stuff.