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Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900

Author : Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496325
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900 written by Bernard L. Herman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pioneering account of mid-Atlantic folk architecture and of the nineteenth-century transformation of traditional agriculture. . . . A major study of American vernacular architecture."--Dell Upton, University of California, Berkeley "Bernard L. Herman has provided us with a model study in the interdisciplinary interpretation of a common landscape."--Robert Blair St. George, Journal of American Folklore "An impressive study that adds an important dimension to our understanding of the built environment."--Clifford E. Clark Jr., American Historical Review "A wide range of reader expectations will be met by this book. Herman provides a focused community study as well as an interpretation of vernacular architecture in the Mid-Atlantic region."--John Michael Vlach, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "Scholars will be impressed by Herman's ability to marshal different kinds of evidence to buttress his contention that architecture reveals not just how people materially ordered their lives but helped 'to create and maintain order, to project images of self and community, and to control meaning in social discourse.'"--Choice The Author: Bernard L. Herman teaches at the University of Delaware, where is a professor of art history and senior research fellow at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design. Among his many publications are Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (co-author with Gabrielle M. Lanier) and Historical Architectural and the Study of American Culture (co-editor with Lu Ann De Cunzo).

Town House

Author : Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839167
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Town House written by Bernard L. Herman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society. As the physical objects that composed the largest portion of urban settings, town houses contained and signified different aspects of city life, argues Herman. Taking a material culture approach, Herman examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life. Working with buildings and documentary sources as diverse as court cases and recipes, Herman interprets town houses as lived experience. Chapters consider an array of domestic spaces, including the merchant family's house, the servant's quarter, and the widow's dower. Herman demonstrates that city houses served as sites of power as well as complex and often conflicted artifacts mapping the everyday negotiations of social identity and the display of sociability.

Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic

Author : Gabrielle M. Lanier
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853258
Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic by : Gabrielle M. Lanier

Download or read book Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic written by Gabrielle M. Lanier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.

The Refinement of America

Author : Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761606
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Refinement of America written by Richard Lyman Bushman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

US 301 Corridor Improvement Between MD/DE State Line, New Castle County

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book US 301 Corridor Improvement Between MD/DE State Line, New Castle County written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860

Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332065
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860 by : J. Ritchie Garrison

Download or read book Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860 written by J. Ritchie Garrison and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study draws on anthropology, archaeology, art history, folklore, and history to illuminate the rich texture of a historic landscape and the complex process by which it changed over a ninety-year period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Focusing on Franklin County in the upper Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a landscape that shares many characteristics with greater New England and with the rural North, Garrison describes the region's town plans, agricultural patterns, dwellings, barns, outbuildings, fences, and transportation networks--and how they changed. He demonstrates that the transformation of this rural landscape was a dynamic process, a complex interaction between tradition and innovation, driven by people's shifting expectations about material life. Garrison's carefully researched, narrative study begins with the lives of individual inhabitants and from them generates a larger picture. Who lived in Franklin County, what they thought and wrote about, what choices they made and what principles they lived by, what buildings and crops they raised and with what tools and methods, how they organized their homes, family life, farms, and workspaces, what they did with their leisure time, how they spent their money or manifested their social status--these are the topics of his investigation. His study provides insight into the changing values that accompanied the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and raises questions about the nature of tradition and the character of American -folklife.- The Author: J. Ritchie Garrison is associate director of the Museum Studies Program and assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware.

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

Author : James D. Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801859861
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)

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Book Synopsis Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America by : James D. Kornwolf

Download or read book Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America written by James D. Kornwolf and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047430
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a mid-eighteenth-century group, the so-called Pennsylvania Germans, build their cultural identity in the face of ethnic stereotyping, nostalgic ideals, and the views imposed by outside contemporaries? Numerous forces create a group's identity, including the views of outsiders, insiders, and the shaping pressure of religious beliefs, but to understand the process better, we must look to clues from material culture. Cynthia Falk explores the relationship between ethnicity and the buildings, personal belongings, and other cultural artifacts of early Pennsylvania German immigrants and their descendants. Such material culture has been the basis of stereotyping Pennsylvania Germans almost since their arrival. Falk warns us against the typical scholarly overemphasis on Pennsylvania Germans' assimilation into an English way of life. Rather, she demonstrates that more than anything, socioeconomic status and religious affiliation influenced the character of the material culture of Pennsylvania Germans. Her work also shows how early Pennsylvania Germans defined their own identities.

Exploring Everyday Landscapes

Author : Annmarie Adams
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499838
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Everyday Landscapes written by Annmarie Adams and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.

A Historical Archaeology of Delaware

Author : Lu Ann De Cunzo
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332492
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)

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Book Synopsis A Historical Archaeology of Delaware by : Lu Ann De Cunzo

Download or read book A Historical Archaeology of Delaware written by Lu Ann De Cunzo and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By analyzing what she describes as richly detailed archaeological site biographies, De Cunzo reconstructs how Delaware's farming people actively created their identities and shaped their interactions at home, at work, at church, and in the marketplace as they began to confront industrial capitalism. Informed by a contextual, interpretive perspective, this valuable work reveals the complex interrelationships among environment, technology, economy, social order, and cultural praxis that defined the "cultures of agriculture" in Delaware during the last three centuries."--Jacket.

Vernacular architecture in the Codroy Valley

Author : Richard MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772824143
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular architecture in the Codroy Valley written by Richard MacKinnon and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the story of a small Newfoundland community, as told through its buildings. From the addition of a kitchen to the construction of a new house, the way people build and change their homes says a great deal about their histories and daily lives, and the author’s insights on the stories told in the architecture of the Codroy Valley are sure to encourage readers to look at their own communities in a new way.

Landscape Archaeology

Author : Rebecca Yamin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499203
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Archaeology written by Rebecca Yamin and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the editors note, "This volume includes many searching looks at the landscape, not just to understand ourselves, but to understand the context for other peoples' lives in other times, to unravel the landscapes they created and explain the meanings embedded in them.".

Gender, Class, and Shelter

Author : Elizabeth C. Cromley
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498725
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Class, and Shelter by : Elizabeth C. Cromley

Download or read book Gender, Class, and Shelter written by Elizabeth C. Cromley and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 18 essays by scholars in the fields of folklore, architectural history, urban history, preservation, archaeology, and geography, tackling a variety of building types and interpretive issues within the broad themes of gender, economic and social institutions, ethnicity and race, popular culture, and rural and urban geographies. Bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design

Author : Kingston Heath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136433570
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design written by Kingston Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international case studies, it examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of tactics to achieve culturally and environmentally appropriate design solutions. • Shows that architecture and design are inextricably linked to social and environmental processes, and are not just technical or aesthetic exercises. • Articulates a variety of methods to realise goals of socially responsible and environmentally responsive design. • Calls for a principled approach to design in an effort to preserve fragile environments and forge sustainable best practice. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' will appeal to educators and professional practitioners in the fields of architecture, heritage conservation and urban design. Dr. Kingston Wm. Heath is Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon. Previously he was Professor of Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte where he taught seminars on vernacular architecture and regional design theory. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and Brown University. In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals, he is the author of Patina of Place, and winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award from The Vernacular Architecture Forum for excellence in a scholarly work. He has earned an international reputation in the field of vernacular architecture and has directed field schools in Italy and Croatia.

Vernacular Architecture

Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023629
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Architecture written by Henry Glassie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a prime resource for the one who would write a democratic and comprehensive history.

Articulating British Classicism

Author : Elizabeth McKellar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351575325
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Articulating British Classicism written by Elizabeth McKellar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years. Articulating British Classicism reconsiders the traditional historiography of British eighteenth-century architecture as it was shaped after World War II, and brings together for the first time a variety of new perspectives on British classicism in the period. Drawing on current thinking about the eighteenth century from a range of disciplines, the book examines such topics as social and gender identities, colonialization and commercialization, notions of the rural, urban and suburban, as well as issues of theory and historiography. Canonical constructions of Georgian architecture are explored, including current evaluations of the continental intellectual background, the relationship with mid seventeenth-century Stuart court classicism and the development of the subject in the twentieth century.

English Houses 1300-1800

Author : Matthew. H Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868633
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book English Houses 1300-1800 written by Matthew. H Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houses are more than a shelter from the elements: they also offer an unparalleled insight into the beliefs, ideas and experiences of the people who built and lived in them. In this engaging book, Matthew Johnson looks at the traditional houses that still exist throughout the English countryside and examines the lives of the ordinary people who once occupied them. His wide-ranging narrative takes in the medieval hall and the community it framed; the rebuilding and 'improvement'of houses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and the rise of the Georgian Order in both architecture and eighteenth century culture. This passionate book is animated by the conviction that old houses are much more than just pretty tableaux of an idyllic, unchanging rural England. Vernacular houses are compared to their larger, 'polite' counterparts, and English houses are placed in the wider context of the British Isles and the Atlantic world beyond. The result is a dynamic, compelling account of the development of houses in the English countryside and through this, a portrait of changing patterns of social life from medieval to modern times. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, this book will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the significance of our built heritage and the historic landscape.