Architecture And Rural Life In Central Delaware 1700 1900

Author : Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870496328

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Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900 by Bernard L. Herman Pdf

"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).

Author : Gabrielle M. Lanier,Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801853257

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Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic by Gabrielle M. Lanier,Bernard L. Herman Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307761606

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The Refinement of America by Richard Lyman Bushman Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030106553

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

Author : James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859867

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Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America by James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf Pdf

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.

Author : Michael D. Scholl,Angela Hoseth,David J. Grettler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OSU:32435055612139

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Transportation and Agricultural Changes in Blackbird Hundred by Michael D. Scholl,Angela Hoseth,David J. Grettler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0271047437

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

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.

Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1572332069

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

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.

Author : Lu Ann De Cunzo
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1572332492

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A Historical Archaeology of Delaware by Lu Ann De Cunzo Pdf

"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.

Author : Annmarie Adams,Sally Ann McMurry
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870499831

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Exploring Everyday Landscapes by Annmarie Adams,Sally Ann McMurry Pdf

"Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.

Author : Richard MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781772824148

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Vernacular architecture in the Codroy Valley by Richard MacKinnon Pdf

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.

Author : Rebecca Yamin,Karen Bescherer Metheny
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0870499203

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Landscape Archaeology by Rebecca Yamin,Karen Bescherer Metheny Pdf

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.".

Author : Elizabeth C. Cromley,Carter L. Hudgins
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 087049872X

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Gender, Class, and Shelter by Elizabeth C. Cromley,Carter L. Hudgins Pdf

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

Author : Mark E. Reinberger,Elizabeth McLean
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421418797

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The Philadelphia Country House by Mark E. Reinberger,Elizabeth McLean Pdf

A highly readable, beautifully illustrated study of the homes built by elite colonial Philadelphians as retreats—which balanced English models with developing local taste. Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century, Americans had developed their own version of the bourgeois English countryseat, a class of estate equally distinct in social function and form from townhouses, rural plantations, and farms. The metropolis of Philadelphia was surrounded by a particularly extraordinary collection of country houses and landscapes. Taken together, these estates make up one of the most significant groups of homes in colonial America. In this masterly volume, Mark Reinberger, a senior architectural historian, and Elizabeth McLean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine the country houses that the urban gentry built on the outskirts of Philadelphia in response to both local and international economic forces, social imperatives, and fashion. What do these structures and their gardens say about the taste of the people who conceived and executed them? How did their evolving forms demonstrate the persistence of European templates while embodying the spirit of American adaptation? The Philadelphia Country House explores the myriad ways in which these estates—which were located in the country but responded to the ideas and manners of the city—straddled the cultural divide between urban and rural. Moving from general trends and building principles to architectural interiors and landscape design, Reinberger and McLean take readers on an intimate tour of the fine, fashionable elements found in upstairs parlors and formal gardens. They also reveal the intricate working world of servants, cellars, and kitchen gardens. Highlighting an important aspect of American historic architecture, this handsome volume is illustrated with nearly 150 photographs, more than 60 line drawings, and two color galleries.

Author : Kingston Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136433573

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Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design by Kingston Heath Pdf

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.