The Refinement of America

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  • The Refinement of America Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Lyman Bushman
  • Release Date : 2011-09-21
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 529
  • ISBN 13 : 0307761606
  • File Size : 91,91 MB
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The Refinement of America by Richard Lyman Bushman PDF Summary

Book 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.

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