Homes for the People, in Suburb and Country
Author : Gervase Wheeler
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Gervase Wheeler
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0307761606
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.
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1855
Category : American periodicals
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Literature
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Author : Charles Fenno Hoffman
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Page : 686 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1855
Category : American periodicals
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Gardening
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Author : Ontario. Department of Education
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1857
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Publisher : Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1847
Category : School libraries
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Author : United States. Light-House Board. Library
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Lighthouses
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Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1987-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199763143
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.