The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

Brand: Vintage

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UPC:
9780679744146
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
8/31/1993
Release Date:
8/31/1993
Author:
Richard Lyman Bushman
Language:
english
Edition:
Edition Unstated
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Product Overview

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.