1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480023503321

Autore

Topp Leslie <1969->

Titolo

Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / / Leslie Topp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-07920-7

0-271-07922-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages :) : illustrations, maps ;

Collana

Buildings, landscapes, and societies

Disciplina

725.52094

Soggetti

Hospital architecture - Europe, Central - History - 19th century

Psychiatric hospitals - Europe, Central - Design and construction - History - 20th century

Psychiatric hospitals - Europe, Central - Design and construction - History - 19th century

Hospital architecture - Europe, Central - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The free institution -- Regions, nationalism, and the asylum as a political project -- "A white city shimmering" : the rhetorical heightening of control -- Utopia in process in Vienna's hinterland -- Spaces -- Boundaries.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455152903321

Autore

Garcia J. Malcolm <1957->

Titolo

The Khaarijee [[electronic resource] ] : a chronicle of friendship and war in Kabul / / J. Malcolm Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Beacon Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8070-0058-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

958.104/7

Soggetti

Afghan War, 2001-2021

Electronic books.

Kabul (Afghanistan) Description and travel

Kabul (Afghanistan) Social conditions 21st century

Kabul (Afghanistan) Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph