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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.

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  • Knopf Doubleday Publishin Brand
  • Aug 31, 1993 Pub Date:
  • 9780679744146 ISBN-13:
  • 0679744142 ISBN-10:
  • 528 Pages
  • English Language
  • 8 in * 5.1 in * 1 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: