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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Women have practiced as landscape architects, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners, garden designers, horticulturalists, and fine artists. This book describes design practice in landscape architecture by women in the first half of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In modern society, we have professionalized our care for the dying and deceased in hospitals and hospices, churches and funeral homes, cemeteries and mausoleums to aid dazed and disoriented mourners. But these formal institutions can be alienating and cold, leaving people craving a more humane mourning and burial process. The burial treatment itself has come to be seen as wasteful and harmful-marked by chemicals, plush caskets, and manicured greens....
Author
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacular architecture, the common buildings of particular regions and time periods. Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley provide a comprehensive introduction to the field." "Rich with illustrations and written in a clear and jargon-free style, Invitation to Vernacular Architecture is an ideal text for...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds--and account books--of eighteenth-century Americans as it does today. Long before they had achieved independence from Britain and were able to sail to Asia themselves, American mariners, merchants, and consumers were aware of the East...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the early colonial period to the close of World War II, life in North America was predominantly agrarian and rural. Archaeological exploration of farmsteads unveils a surprising quantity of data about rural life, consumption patterns, and migrations across the continent. Mark Groover offers both case studies and an overview of current trends in farmstead archaeology in this exciting new work. He also proposes a research design and makes numerous...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Providing an overview of African American history, this text discusses a range of topics such as the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature.
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