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

Bushman, Richard L.

 
9780394550107: The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394550102 ISBN 13: 9780394550107
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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, 1690–1765 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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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0394550102
ISBN 13 
9780394550107
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
504
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