The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities - Richard Lyman Bushman - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780679744146 - August 31, 1993
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Richard Lyman Bushman
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

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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.

528 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 31, 1993
ISBN13 9780679744146
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 528
Dimensions 132 × 202 × 29 mm   ·   453 g
Language English  

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