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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

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19th Century United States HistoryArchitecture HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0679744142
ISBN13: 9780679744146
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 31 1993
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)