Town House - Bernard L. Herman

Town House

Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2017
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3352-7 (ISBN)
42,95 inkl. MwSt
In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society. As the physical objects that composed the largest portion of urban settings, town houses contained and signified different aspects of city life, argues Herman.

Taking a material culture approach, Herman examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life. Working with buildings and documentary sources as diverse as court cases and recipes, Herman interprets town houses as lived experience. Chapters consider an array of domestic spaces, including the merchant family's house, the servant's quarter, and the widow's dower. Herman demonstrates that city houses served as sites of power as well as complex and often conflicted artifacts mapping the everyday negotiations of social identity and the display of sociability.

Bernard L. Herman is Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. He is author of three previous books, including Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900; The Stolen House; and, with Gabrielle M. Lanier, Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 229 mm
Gewicht 525 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-4696-3352-3 / 1469633523
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-3352-7 / 9781469633527
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