From Tavern to Courthouse - Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658-1860

Informationen zum Autor Martha J. McNamara is an associate professor of history at the University of Maine. Klappentext During the formative years of the American republic! lawyers and architects! both eager to secure public affirmation of their professional status! worked together to create specialized! purpose-built courthouses to replace the informal judicial settings in which trials took place during the colonial era. In From Tavern to Courthouse! Martha J. McNamara addresses this fundamental redefinition of civic space in Massachusetts. Professional collaboration! she argues! benefitted both lawyers and architects! as it reinforced their desire to be perceived as trained specialists solely concerned with promoting the public good. These courthouses! now reserved exclusively for legal proceedings and occupying specialized locations in the town plans! represented a new vision for the design! organization! and function of civic space. Zusammenfassung Concise and clearly written! From Tavern to Courthouse reveals the processes by which architects and lawyers crafted new judicial spaces to provide a specialized! exclusive venue in which lawyers could articulate their professional status.

Product details

• Authors: Martha J McNamara, Martha J. McNamara, Martha J. (Wellesley College) Mcnamara
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780801873959
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7395-9
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Creating the North American Landscape; Creating the North American La; Creating the North American Landscape; Creating the North American La
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, LAW / General, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, United States of America, USA, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings