The Refinement of America - Persons, Houses, Cities (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1993
First published:	August 1993
Authors:	Richard Lyman Bushman
Dimensions:	202 x 132 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	528
Edition:	1st Vintage Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-74414-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-679-74414-2
Barcode:	9780679744146

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