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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818156803321

Autore

McMurry Sally Ann <1954->

Titolo

Families and farmhouses in nineteenth-century America : vernacular design and social change / / Sally McMurry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988

ISBN

1-280-52335-2

0-19-536451-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

728/.67/0973

Soggetti

Farmhouses - United States

Vernacular architecture - United States

Architecture - United States - History - 19th century

Architecture and society - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on author's thesis--Cornell University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. 225-250 and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ONE: Introduction; TWO: The Progressive Agriculturist's Vernacular; THREE: The Shape of Cooperation: The Farmstead as Workplace, 1830-1855; FOUR: The Spheres Diverge: Work on the Progressive Farmstead, 1855-1885; FIVE: City Parlor, Country Sitting Room; SIX: Supervision to Self-Culture: Children's Spaces on the Progressive Farmstead; SEVEN: From Production to Consumption: Progressive Farmhouse Design at the Turn of the Century; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; PICTURE SOURCES AND CREDITS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A look at the changing design of 19th-century American farmhouses, collected from a wide range of agricultural periodicals of the time.