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UNINA9910793710303321 |
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Davis Charles L., II. |
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Building character : the racial politics of modern architectural style / / Charles L. Davis II |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2019] |
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0-8229-6682-4 |
0-8229-8663-9 |
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1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) |
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Culture, politics, and the built environment |
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Architecture and race - History - 19th century |
Architecture and race - History - 20th century |
Architecture and society - History - 19th century |
Architecture and society - History - 20th century |
Architecture - Psychological aspects |
Democracy and architecture |
ARCHITECTURE / General |
Architecture and race |
Architecture and society |
History |
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Monografia |
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Includes chapter notes (pages 235-254), bibliographical references (pages 255-264), and index. |
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Part I. The Aryan character of alpine architecture. Campfires in the salon ; Beyond the primitive hut – Part II. The whiteness of American architecture. The search for an American architecture ; When public housing was white – Conclusion. Race, nature, and nation in postwar American architecture. |
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In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of "race" and "style" as manifestations of natural law: just as biological |
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processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists--Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze--to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles. |
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UNINA9910815831703321 |
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Autore |
Bosworth William |
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Catholicism and crisis in modern France : French Catholic groups at the threshold of the Fifth Republic / / William Bosworth |
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Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1962 |
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©1962 |
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1 online resource (423 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Catholicism and French Society: An Introductory Note -- 2. Historical Sketch: Catholic Institutions and the Laic Republic -- 3. The Ecclesiastical Nucleus -- 4. Catholic Action: The Auxiliary to the Hierarchy -- 5. Catholic Social Action Organizations -- 6. The Catholic Press -- 7. Organizations of Catholic Inspiration -- 8. The School Question and Specialized Catholic Institutions -- 9. Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index |
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The author discusses the role of French Catholicism in the internal and foreign affairs of modern France, with a detailed examination of French Catholic groups and their effect on temporal life. Presenting a wealth of material from official archives and files of French Catholic periodicals and organizations, Mr. Bosworth supplements his research by direct interviews with key personnel from a variety of Catholic groups. Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
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UNINA9910639978103321 |
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Autore |
Kuh George |
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Titolo |
Engaging Students : Using Evidence to Promote Student Success |
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Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2017 |
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1 electronic resource (262 p.) |
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Higher & further education, tertiary education |
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The book provides a rich, informative picture of the current state of student engagement evaluation, while also highlighting challenges and opportunities for future advances. A particular strength of this publication is its emphasis on the importance of taking evidence-based decisions, and showing how the South African Survey of Student |
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Engagement (SASSE) can provide the evidence for well-informed changes in policy and practice in order to enhance student success." - Prof Magda Fourie-Malherbe, Stellenbosch University |
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