The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities |
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| Authors: | Bushman, Richard Lyman |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS036040, SOC002010, HIS036030 |
| ISBN: | 9780307761606, Related ISBNs: 0307761606, 0394550102, 0679744142, 9780307761606, 9780394550107 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 528, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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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