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

Bushman, Richard Lyman

 
9780679744146: The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679744142 ISBN 13: 9780679744146
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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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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
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679744142
ISBN 13 
9780679744146
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
529
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