The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Bushman, Richard Lyman

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679744146)

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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Bushman, Richard Lyman

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

$27.00
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Bushman, Richard Lyman

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

$27.00
Format: Paperback
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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 America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.

Author: Richard Lyman Bushman
ISBN-10: 0679744142
ISBN-13: 9780679744146
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/31/1993
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.00d
By Richard Lyman Bushman
By Richard Lyman Bushman
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Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. He has also taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. His From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 won the Bancroft Prize in 1967. His other books include Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1984), winner of the Evans Biography Award; King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985); and The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992). A practicing Mormon, he lives in New York City with his wife, Claudia.

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