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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778328303321

Autore

Stratigakos Despina

Titolo

A women's Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8166-6644-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

720.82

720.8209432

Soggetti

Architecture and women - Germany - Berlin

Space (Architecture) - Germany - Berlin

Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 19th century

Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Forgotten Metropolis; 1 Remapping Berlin: A Modern Woman's Guidebook to the City; 2 From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: The Politics of Clubhouse Architecture; 3 A Home of Our Own: Single Women and the New Domestic Architecture; 4 Exhibiting the New Woman: The Phenomenal Success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf; 5 The Architecture of Social Work: Workers' Clubs, Social Welfare Institutions, and the Debate over Female Housing Inspectors; Epilogue: What a Woman Must Know about Berlin, Twenty Years Later; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Architectural History/Women's Studies"Despina Stratigakos takes us on a fascinating journey into a largely forgotten city at the heart of early twentieth-century metropolitan Berlin. Both imaginary and physical, A Women's Berlin is a space of agency in which women architects, designers, and patrons shaped not only a network of new institutions in the city but also a modern female subjectivity and urban identity for themselves as public citizens." -Eve Blau, Harvard UniversityAround the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the Germ



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910897545203321

Autore

Gallivan Martin D. <1968->

Titolo

The Powhatan Landscape : An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake / / Martin D. Gallivan ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , 2018

©2016

ISBN

0-8130-6367-1

0-8130-5181-9

0-8130-5252-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology

Disciplina

975.5004/97347

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - Social life and customs

Indians of North America - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - History

Powhatan Indians - Social life and customs

Powhatan Indians - History

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Social life and customs

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dwelling in Tsenacomacoh -- Mapping the terrain -- Placemaking in the Algonquian Chesapeake -- Arrival in the wide land -- The coarse-pounded corn people -- The place of the antler wearers -- Persistent places in colonial Tsenacomacoh.

Sommario/riassunto

"This study examines the Chesapeake area landscape from the Virginia Algonquian perspective, including its use for hunting, ceremonial worship, settlement, and pilgrimage"--Provided by publisehr.