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Landscapes of Privilege : Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb.

Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb, the authors look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duncan, James
Otros Autores: Duncan, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Bedford in Context; 3. The Narrative Structures: The Cultural Codes of a Landscape Aesthetic; 4. Anxious Pleasures: Place-Based Identity and the Look of the Land; 5. Legislating Beauty: The Politics of Exclusion; 6. The Taxman Cometh: The Gift of Nature in Suburbia; 7. Fabricating History: The Production of Heritage in Bedford Village; 8. Another Country: Latino Labor and the Politics of Disappearance; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.