The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities - Hardcover

Bushman, Richard L.

 
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An exploration of style, taste, beauty, and politeness in American architecture, furnishings, fiction, and other areas after 1720 examines how these concerns changed American environment and a large segment of American culture.

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Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. He has also taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. His From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 16901765 won the Bancroft Prize in 1967. His other books include Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1984), winner of the Evans Biography Award; King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985); and The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992). A practicing Mormon, he lives in New York City with his wife, Claudia.


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ISBN 10:  0679744142 ISBN 13:  9780679744146
Verlag: Vintage, 1993
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