The Refinement Of America

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The Refinement of America

The Refinement of America
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9780307761606
ISBN-13 : 0307761606
Rating : 4/5 (606 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Refinement of America by : Richard Lyman Bushman

Download or read book The Refinement of America written by Richard Lyman Bushman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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