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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities Book

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.Read More

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  • 0679744142
  • 9780679744146
  • Richard Lyman Bushman
  • 1 September 1993
  • Vintage Books USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 528
  • Reprint
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