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Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America - Vernacular Design and Social Change

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext This original and manyu-faceted excursion into rural history demonstrates how a conjuncture of current social issues can promote novel ways of reinterpreting the recent past....Good new insights, like the ones found here, enhance our craft. Klappentext The antebellum era and the close of the 19th century frame a period of great agricultural expansion. During this time! farmhouse plans designed by rural men and women regularly appeared in the flourishing Northern farm journals. This book analyzes these vital indicators of the work patterns! social interactions! and cultural values of the farm families of the time. Examining several hundred owner-designed plans! McMurry shows the ingenious ways in which "progressive" rural Americans designed farmhouses in keeping with their visions of a dynamic! reformed rural culture. From designs for efficient work spaces to a concern for self-contained rooms for adolescent children! this fascinating story of the evolution of progressive farmers' homes sheds new light on rural America's efforts to adapt to major changes brought by industrialization! urbanization! the consolidation of capitalist agriculture! and the rise of the consumer society. Zusammenfassung A look at the changing design of 19th-century American farmhouses, collected from a wide range of agricultural periodicals of the time.

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Authors Sally McMurry, Sally (Professor of History Mcmurry, Sally Ann McMurry, McMurry Sally
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.07.1988
 
EAN 9780195044751
ISBN 978-0-19-504475-1
No. of pages 288
Series Oxford University Press
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings

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