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Early American houses with a glossary of colonial architectural terms

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This publication explores the homes and architecture of 17th-century early America. Original floor plans, illustrations, and photographs are partnered with detailed descriptions. Includes 120 illustrations, 33 plates.

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Court house: a photographic document

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The County Court House, symbolic center of each community from the Colonial era to the present, reflects the attitudes and aspirations of each generation up to our time. This exploration of a vital part of American life tells us much about the people who left their mark on these spaces over a period of two and a half centuries and makes an important contribution to the knowledge of the architecture of the United States. From log cabin to high rise, the photographs and texts encompass modest Colonial buildings and flamboyant structures which are the reflections of properity and pride. The court house stands for the dignity of the law and the democratic principle and is the most significant single building widely distributed across the country.

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American Arcadia: California and the classical tradition

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Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, 'American Arcadia' offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple.

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Lady Liberty

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La statue de la liberté est l’un des monuments le plus photographié au monde.Pour assurer le suivi de sa construction qui se déroule à Paris, son créateur, le Français Auguste Bartholdi, fait appel à l’expertise de photographes professionnels. C’est ainsi qu’il commande un panorama géant de la ville de New York qui l’aide à figurer les projets d’implantation de sa statue. Dessinant sur les images, les retouchant, il se livre aussi à des photomontages. L’image, et en particulier la photographie, jouent ici un rôle inédit.Au-delà de leur fonction, ces images oscillent entre réalité et fiction. Elles racontent vingt années d’un projet démesuré et utopique marqué par les plus grands enjeux politiques, sociaux, architecturaux et esthétiques de son temps.

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Histoire naturelle du Massachusetts

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A partir de l'observation de la faune et de la flore du Massachusetts, l'auteur de ''Walden'' ou ''La vie dans les bois'' se livre à une réflexion poétique sur la science et les scientifiques tout en célébrant la vie naturelle face à la société corruptrice.

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American house styles: a concise guide

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Colonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences that shaped each of these styles and many more. Organized in periods, from Early Colonial (1600–1715) to the Modern Movement (1920–60) and beyond, this tour of America’s varied residential architecture is rendered in elevation drawings that precisely illustrate the key characteristics of each style.

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Taking Manhattan: The extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America

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In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, "Taking Manhattan" reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories—of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. "Taking Manhattan" tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise.

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Another city: urban life and urban spaces in the New American Republic

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, burgeoning American cities such as New Orleans and Philadelphia seemed increasingly chaotic. Through contemporary travel accounts, diaries, and correspondence, as well as an extensive illustration selection of maps, architectural drawings, paintings, and prints - many previously unpublished - Upton investigates not only how buildings were designed, streets were laid out, and urban space was put to use, but also why.

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The architecture of the shakers

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Julie Nicoletta's perceptive text and Bret Morgan's striking photographs illuminate the austere beauty, regional variations, and functional and stylistic evolution of Shaker buildings over the course of two centuries, evoking a visual and literary survey of Shaker design and its impact on our culture at large.

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A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture

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Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States — houses built over the past three hundred years reflecting every social and economic background — this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials of domestic architecture with facts and frames of reference. With more than 1,600 detailed photographs and line illustrations and informative text.