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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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• Full title: The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
• Author: Richard Lyman Bushman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9780679744146
• ISBN: 0679744142
• ID: 11455346
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 130 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: August 1993

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