The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

Bushman, Richard Lyman

ISBN 10: 0394550102 / ISBN 13: 9780394550107

Verlag: Knopf, 1992

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An exploration of style, taste, beauty, and politeness in American architecture, furnishings, fiction, and other areas after 1720 examines how these concerns changed American environment and a large segment of American culture.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. He has also taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. His From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690–1765 won the Bancroft Prize in 1967. His other books include Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1984), winner of the Evans Biography Award; King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985); and The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992). A practicing Mormon, he lives in New York City with his wife, Claudia.


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Titel: The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, ...
Verlag: Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good