The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities - Couverture rigide

Bushman, Richard L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394550102 ISBN 13 : 9780394550107

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Bushman Richard Lyman

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"This important study . . . offers a promising framework for understanding American life."— The New York Times Book Review"From an astonishing array of sources Bushman has pieced together an extraordinarily rich and readable account of the spread of gentility over a century and a half. . . . This is a remarkable book about a subject that is presently emerging as one of the most significant in the history not only of early America but of all early modern Western societies."— Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution"The scope of this book is enormous. . . . Bushman is a skilled researcher, and he has combed the archives of historical museums for his evidence, which he arranges neatly and intelligently."—Los Angeles Times Book Review"One of the most skillful and sensitive accounts in a fresh field . . . The Refinement of America will fundamentally alter the way we think about the genesis of American civilization."— Michael Kammen, Cornell University

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394550102
• ISBN 13: 9780394550107
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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