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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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"The Refinement of America will fundamentally alter the way we think about the genesis of American civilization." --Michael Kammen
"This is a remarkable book about a subject that is presently emerging as one of the most significant in the history not only of early America but of all early modern Western societies." --Gordon S. Wood
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"This is a remarkable book about a subject that is presently emerging as one of the most significant in the history not only of early America but of all early modern Western societies." --Gordon S. Wood
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.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679744142
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