Enclaves of America : the Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad, 1900-1965.

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Whether determining the style of its embassies or the design of overseas cemeteries for Americans killed in battle, the U.S. government in its rise to global leadership greatly valued architectural symbols as a way of conveying its power abroad. In order to explain the political significance of Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robin, Ron Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
Embassy buildings > United States.
National cemeteries, American.
Architecture and state > United States.
Architecture, American.
Ambassades (Édifices) > États-Unis.
Cimetières militaires américains.
Architecture > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Architecture américaine.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture and state.
Embassy buildings.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE; 1. Prologue: Hesitant Beginnings; 2. Incident at Sivry-sur -Meuse: Great War Monuments and Cemeteries in Western Europe; 3. From Palace to Plantation House: The Political Architecture of American Embassies, 1926-1932; PART TWO; 4. Interlude: MarkingTime, 1933-1945; 5. ""Our Own Land on Foreign Soil"" : The Overseas Military Cemeteries of World War II; 6. Foreign Bodies: American Imperial Architecture, 1945-1965; 7. Epilogue: Retreat; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index.

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