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The Refinement of America
Richard Lyman Bushman
其他書名
Persons, Houses, Cities
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2011-09-21
主題
History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN
0307761606
9780307761606
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pessWuFFl4oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.