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The Refinement of America : Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard Lyman Bushman is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 im
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- Author
- Richard Lyman Bushman
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307761606
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Revolutionary Period (1775 1800)
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (149 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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