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Book Synopsis Traditional Houses of Rural Britain by : Matthew Rice
Download or read book Traditional Houses of Rural Britain written by Matthew Rice and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Houses 1300-1800 by : Matthew. H Johnson
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.
Book Synopsis English Houses, 1300-1800 by : Matthew Johnson
Download or read book English Houses, 1300-1800 written by Matthew Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 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.
Book Synopsis Traditional Buildings of Britain by : R. W. Brunskill
Download or read book Traditional Buildings of Britain written by R. W. Brunskill and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Traditional Houses of Rural Spain by : Bill Laws
Download or read book Traditional Houses of Rural Spain written by Bill Laws and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Traditional Buildings of Britain by : Ronald William Brunskill
Download or read book Traditional Buildings of Britain written by Ronald William Brunskill and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Houses and Cottages of Britain by : R. W. Brunskill
Download or read book Houses and Cottages of Britain written by R. W. Brunskill and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the distinguished architectural historian R W Brunskill covers the fascinating history of vernacular housing - the dwelling-palaces of the people - from the earliest times to the 20th century. Construction techniques, materials, design, floor plans for buildings both rural and urban: all are covered in detail, alongside the author's illuminating drawings and many photographs. Particularly fascinating is the section dealing with how particular dwellings - medieval townhouses, longhouses etc - would have developed from their original erection to the state in which we might see them in historic towns of today.Houses and Cottages of Britain is an absolutely essential book for anyone interested, whether professionally or personally, in the architectural history of this country.
Book Synopsis Agriculture in Britain by : British Information Services. Reference Division
Download or read book Agriculture in Britain written by British Information Services. Reference Division and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paradise Valley, Nevada by : Howard W. Marshall
Download or read book Paradise Valley, Nevada written by Howard W. Marshall and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonemasons from the Alpine valleys of northwestern Italy shaped the architectural face of Paradise Valley in northern Nevada in the 1860s and 1870s. Drawing on their own distinctive skills, they constructed the constellation of granite and sandstone buildings that are the region's most visible landmarks. Marshall's analysis of this architectural legacy, illustrated with 229 photographs and 70 line drawings, is not only a valuable resource for scholars in vernacular architecture, folklore, and cultural geography, but also a verbal and visual treat for all who love the American West.
Book Synopsis Traditional Buildings by : Allen Noble
Download or read book Traditional Buildings written by Allen Noble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, the Bohio houses of the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, and much more. Professor's Noble's extensive travels have allowed him to examine many of the building at close quarters and the richly illustrated text includes photographs from his personal collection. With its comprehensive and detailed bibliography, the work will be welcomed by experts and non-specialists alike.
Book Synopsis Traditional Houses of Rural Italy by : Paul Duncan
Download or read book Traditional Houses of Rural Italy written by Paul Duncan and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely tour of Italian rural architecture, arranged by region, interpreted by art writer Duncan, and richly illustrated with color photographs by John Ferro Sims. Published by Collins and Brown (UK); distributed in the US by Abbeville Press. No bibliography. 10x7.5" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis British Speeches of the Day by : British Information Services
Download or read book British Speeches of the Day written by British Information Services and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London by : Cynthia Wall
Download or read book The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London written by Cynthia Wall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the literary and cultural rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Book Synopsis Traditional Buildings of the English Countryside by : Geoffrey R. Sharpe
Download or read book Traditional Buildings of the English Countryside written by Geoffrey R. Sharpe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other country offers so rich and varied a heritage of traditional buildings as England. From windmills to water mills, cottages to castles, dovecotes to beeboles a wealth of treasures await discovery. Drawing upon forty years' experience of caring for historic structures Geoffrey R. Sharpe provides a simple but informed guide to these delights and curiosities of the English countryside. He explains not just the purpose of these buildings but the part they played in the history of the countryside, showing how the buildings evolved and the ways in which people lived and worked in them. He uses his expert knowledge to explain the differences in materials, how they were worked, and the many regional variations to be enjoyed. The result is an invaluable guide that will enhance the reader's understanding and appreciation of England's rich and varied heritage.
Book Synopsis Folk Housing in Middle Virginia by : Henry Glassie
Download or read book Folk Housing in Middle Virginia written by Henry Glassie and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating analysis of eighteenth-century vernacular houses of Middle Virginia, Henry Glassie presents a revolutionary and carefully constructed methodology for looking at houses and interpreting from them the people who built and used them. Glassie believes that all relevant historical evidence - unwritten as well as written - must be taken into account before historical truth can be found. He in convinced that any study of man's past must make use of nonverbal and verbal evidence, since written history - the story of man as recorded by the intellectual elite - does not tell us much about the everyday life, thoughts, and fears of the ordinary people of the past. Such people have always been in the majority, however, and a way has to be found to include them in any valid history. In Folk Housing in Middle Virginia Glassie admirably sets forth such a way. The people who lived in Middle Virginia in the eighteenth century are almost unknown to history because so little has been written about them. After Glassie selected the area - roughly Goochland and Louisa counties - for study, he selected a representative part of the countryside, recorded all the older houses there, developed a transformational grammar of traditional house designs, and examined the area's architectural stability and change. Comparing the houses with written accounts of the period, he found that the houses became more formal and lee related to their environment at the same time as the areas established political, economic, and religious institutions were disintegrating. It is as though the builders of the houses were deliberately trying to impose order on the surrounding chaotic world. Previous orthodox historical interpretations of the period have failed to note this. Glassie has provided new insights into the intellectual and social currents of the period, and at that time has rescued a heretofore little-known people from historiographical oblivion. Combining a fresh, perceptive approach with a broad interdisciplinary body of knowledge, ha has made an invaluable breakthrough in showing the way to understand the people of history who have left their material things as their only legacy. Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University. He is the author of Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States, passing the Time in Ballymenone, Irish Folktales, and The Spirit of Folk Art. He has served as president of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the American Folklore Society.
Book Synopsis The Rural Housing Question by : Madhu Satsangi
Download or read book The Rural Housing Question written by Madhu Satsangi and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructured countryside. This book provides an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales, and Scotland. It looks at a range of topics related to community and planning issues, including attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning, and counter-urbanization. The Rural Housing Question emphasizes the need for serious debate on government's rural housing policies and on the broad approach to development and communities in the countryside.
Book Synopsis The Prose of Things by : Cynthia Sundberg Wall
Download or read book The Prose of Things written by Cynthia Sundberg Wall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.