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Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015027250235
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584653728
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439124918
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Author : Sarah Susanka,Kira Obolensky
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781561583768
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
Author : Yoshi Ueno
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646141050
Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet! It's a little awkward at firs—as most new friendships can be—but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday. When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built? This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.
Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781561586059
Offers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.
Author : John M. Eason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226410340
Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."
Author : Clarence E. Gaines
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American basketball coaches
ISBN : UCSC:32106017881746
Big House. For nearly half a century in college basketball circles, no other introduction was necessary. Clarence E. "Big House" Gaines became head coach at Winston-Salem Teachers College in 1946. He was not just the head basketball coach. He was the head coach. Period. He coached every sport the school offered -- football, basketball, track, tennis, boxing. He taught in the classroom, too, And all for $2,400 a year. He slept in the men's dormitory and ate discounted meals in the cafeteria. How good were his teams in those early days? About as good as you'd expect at a predominantly women's college whose cupboard of male athletes was bare immediately after World War II.
Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131558
William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.
Author : Benjamin Chaud
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452173788
This follow-up to Benjamin Chaud's critically acclaimed The Bear's Song and its sequels is graced with richly detailed art, immersive scenes, and an irresistibly sweet story! Little Bear is embarking on his biggest adventure yet. After discovering an empty house, his wish is granted: He can play all day and stay up as late as he wants! But he also gets a big scare. There are mysterious noises downstairs—could there be monsters . . . or ghosts?! Will Little Bear be able to brave the big house all by himself? In step with the previous books in the series, Little Bear may venture far and wide, but his loving family is never far behind!
Author : Edith Œnone Somerville,Martin Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Country homes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018799051
Author : Eric J. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313383663
This work is an in-depth, on-the-ground examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. A recent study by the Urban Institute estimates that one-third of all counties in the United States house a prison, and that our prison and jail population is now over 2.1 million. Another report indicates that more than 97 percent of all U.S. prisoners are eventually released, and communities are absorbing nearly 650,000 formerly incarcerated individuals each year. These figures are particularly alarming considering the fact that rural communities are using prisons as economic development vehicles without fully understanding the effects of these jails on the area. This book is the result of author Eric J. Williams' ground-level research about the effects of prisons upon two rural American communities that lobbied to host maximum security prisons. Through hundreds of interviews conducted while living in Florence, Colorado, and Beeville, Texas, Williams offers the perspective of local residents on all sides of the issue, as well as a social history told mainly from the standpoint of those who lobbied for the prisons.
Author : Patricia C. McKissack,Pat McKissack,Fredrick McKissack
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119478795
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Author : Sherry Petersik,John Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781579656768
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Author : Claire Sandy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447276241
Holidays are about surviving the gaps between one meal and another.' For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he's loaded (despite two divorces and five kids), she's gorgeous, but maybe the equation for a truly happy marriage is a bit more complicated than that; and the Browns, who seem oddly jumpy around people, but especially each other. By the pool, new friendships blossom; at the Aga door, resentments begin to simmer. Secret crushes are formed and secret cigarettes cadged by the teens, as the adults loosen their inhibitions with litres of white wine and start to get perhaps a little too honest . . . Mother hen to all, Evie Herreras has a life-changing announcement to make, one that could rock the foundations of her family. But will someone else beat her to it?
