The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

by Bushman, Richard Lyman
ISBN: 9780679744146
Availability:
$5.99
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780679744146

Available Offers

Ship to HPB Bandera Out of stock at HPB Bandera Check other stores
$1.99 - Ready for pickup Oct 3 - 14
Ship to Me
$3.99 - Get it Oct 3 - 6

Overview

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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Bushman, Richard Lyman
  • ISBN: 9780679744146
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 528
  • Publication Year: 1993