Cargando…
Looking for Old Ontario.
McIlwraith walks the reader through the southern Ontario landscape, showing how its field patterns, house designs, village layouts, and road structures reveal two centuries of development and change.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- 1 Acknowledging landscape
- Part I: Building old Ontario
- 2 The evolving vernacular
- 3 Natural and human history
- 4 Surveys and place names
- 5 Building materials and arts
- Part II: Reading individual features
- 6 Houses
- 7 Revealing details
- 8 Community buildings
- 9 Barns
- 10 Fences
- 11 Power and mills
- 12 Graves and monuments
- Part III: Examining clusters of features
- 13 Farms
- 14 Roadsides
- 15 Transport systems
- 16 Townscapes
- Part IV: Finding limits
- 17 Boundaries
- 18 Decay and renewal
- APPENDIX A: Structure and outside finish
- APPENDIX B: Halls
- APPENDIX C: A fence typology
- NOTES
- SUGGESTED READING
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.