The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
An illuminating history of how manners, houses, and cities reflected and shaped American ideals of refinement from colonial times onward.
About This Book
The Refinement of America examines the evolution of personal conduct, domestic architecture, and city planning in the United States.
Richard Lyman Bushman traces how aspirations for refinement influenced everyday life and public spaces across several centuries.
The study draws on diaries, letters, and material culture to illustrate changing standards of taste and behavior.
Readers gain insight into the social forces that helped define what it meant to be genteel in early America.
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