Architecture and suburbia from English villa to American dream house, 1690-2000 / John Archer.
Architecture and suburbia from English villa to American dream house, 1690-2000 / John Archer.
Architecture and suburbia from English villa to American dream house, 1690-2000 / John Archer.
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Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N728.0973/5
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English
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xx, 470 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
Prologue : self, house, and suburb -- Introduction : built spaces and identity -- Pt. I. Eighteenth-century England : the genesis of the bourgeois dwelling -- 1. Locating the self in space -- 2. Villa suburbana, Terra suburbana -- 3. The apparatus of selfhood -- Pt. II. Nineteenth-century America :...
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Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
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Minnesota
Date Published
2005.
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State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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"Spanning four centuries, Architecture and Suburbia explores phenomena ranging from household furnishings and routines to the proliferation of the dream house in parallel with Cold War politics. Beginning with John Locke, whose Enlightenment philosophy imagined individuals capable of self-fulfillment, Archer examines the eighteenth-century British...
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Architecture and suburbia from English villa to American dream house, 1690-2000 / John Archer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N728.0973/5
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74VKdOrAVxgl
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0816643032 (alk. paper)
9780816643035 (alk. paper)
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728.0973091733
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991019908579702626
