Sites unseen : architecture, race, and American literature /
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | America and the long 19th century.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and-although we have not yet understood this clearly-race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780814732489 0814732488 9780814733271 0814733271 |