| The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities Contributor(s): Bushman, Richard Lyman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679744142 ISBN-13: 9780679744146 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1993 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - Architecture | History - General - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 93013118 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 8" (1.00 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |