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Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities - Richard L. Bushman - Hardcover - 1st ed
by Bushman, Richard L.
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- ISBN-13: 9780394550107
- ISBN: 0394550102
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
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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 Americanewly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.Bushman, Richard L. is the author of 'Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities - Richard L. Bushman - Hardcover - 1st ed' with ISBN 9780394550107 and ISBN 0394550102.
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