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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Bushman, Richard Lyman
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| Publisher: |
Vintage
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| Date: |
8/31/1993
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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