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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.