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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Steven Conn , Max PagePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.130kg ISBN: 9780812237344ISBN 10: 081223734 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 05 August 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. They Do Things Better in Europe : Americans View the World Chapter 3. So Glorious a Landscape: Shaping Nature the American Way Chapter 4. One Nation, of Many Parts: Regionalism and the Built Environment Chapter 5. Urbanism, Real and Imagined Chapter 6. Taming the Crabgrass Frontier: The Triumph of the Suburbs Chapter 7. Better Buildings, Better People: American Architecture and Social Reform Chapter 8. Monuments and Memory: Building and Protecting the American Past Index AcknowledgmentsReviewsThis anthology will undoubtedly open new paths of inquiry into the making, shaping, preservation, and use of the American landscape. -Daniel Bluestone, University of Virginia Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. Building the Nation is happily one of the latter... Vastly useful. -Preservation This anthology will undoubtedly open new paths of inquiry into the making, shaping, preservation, and use of the American landscape. -Daniel Bluestone, University of Virginia Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. Building the Nation is happily one of the latter... Vastly useful. -Preservation Author InformationSteven Conn is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 and Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Max Page is Associate Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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