Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture – serie
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Medicine by Design
The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943
Häftad, 2008
312 kr
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In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating …
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Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
Häftad, 2009
280 kr
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During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same time, the dramatic events of the 1930s and …
Little White Houses
How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
Häftad, 2013
453 kr
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A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues …
Women and the Everyday City
Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915
Häftad, 2011
303 kr
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In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women's ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how …
Designing the Creative Child
Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Av Amy F. Ogata
Häftad, 2013
395 kr
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The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and …
Building Zion
The Material World of Mormon Settlement
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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For Mormons, the second coming of Christ and the subsequent millennium will arrive only when the earth has been perfected through the building of a model world called Zion. Throughout the nineteenth century the Latter-day Saints followed this vision, creating a material world-first in Missouri and …
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940
Inbunden, 2020
1386 kr
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The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homesAt the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric …
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940
Häftad, 2020
453 kr
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The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homesAt the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric …
Suburban Church
Modernism and Community in Postwar America
Inbunden, 2015
1616 kr
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After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a …
Suburban Church
Modernism and Community in Postwar America
Häftad, 2015
453 kr
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After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a …
California Mission Landscapes
Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage
Häftad, 2016
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Nothing defines California and our nations heritage as significantly or emotionally,says the California Mission Foundation, as do the twenty-one missions that were founded along the coast from San Diego to Sonoma.Indeed, the missions collectively represent the states most iconic tourist …
Manufactured Wilderness
Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960
Häftad, 2010
309 kr
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Since they were first established in the 1880s, children’s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps …
Architecture of Madness
Insane Asylums in the United States
Av Carla Yanni
Häftad, 2007
309 kr
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Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums-ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles-were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an …
