[PDF.16sl] The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

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 | #201012 in Books |  Vintage |  1993-08-31 |  1993-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.97 x1.11 x5.20l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 528 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Recommended|By Bianca Sultana|In The Refinement of America, Richard L. Bushman focuses on gentility and how the desire to become one of society's elite led to the formation of a whole new class of consumers. The soaring demand for such accoutrements as porcelain and silver made way for industrial capitalism by creating a market economy. Bushman takes a positive outlook on|From Publishers Weekly|If Bushman is correct, it was not until the mid-19th century that a majority of middle-class Americans displayed a concern for taste and beauty in their dress, comportment, manners and houses. From colonial times to the Revolution, he writ

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 co...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities   |  Richard Lyman Bushman. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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