The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities 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. Autor: Richard Lyman Bushman Wydawnictwo: Random House N.Y. Rok wydania: 2005 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 528 Wymiary: 15.0 x 10.0 x 1.2 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780679744146