The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
ISBN-13:
9780679744146
ISBN-10:
0679744142
Edition:
Edition Unstated
Author:
Richard Lyman Bushman
Publication date:
1993
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
528 pages
Category:
History
,
Architecture
,
Revolution & Founding
,
United States History
,
Evolution
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9780679744146
ISBN-10:
0679744142
Edition:
Edition Unstated
Author:
Richard Lyman Bushman
Publication date:
1993
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
528 pages
Category:
History
,
Architecture
,
Revolution & Founding
,
United States History
,
Evolution
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
Summary
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (ISBN-13: 9780679744146 and ISBN-10: 0679744142), written by authors
Richard Lyman Bushman, was published by Vintage in 1993.
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Description
This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.
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