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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities Richard Lyman Bushman
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
Richard Lyman Bushman
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
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 31 de agosto de 1993 |
| ISBN13 | 9780679744146 |
| Editoras | Random House USA Inc |
| Páginas | 528 |
| Dimensões | 132 × 202 × 29 mm · 453 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |