The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America By Mark E. Reinberger, Elizabeth McLean
| #1019512 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2015-11-12 | Original language: English | PDF # 1 | 11.00 x 1.25 x 8.50l, 3.69 | File type: PDF | 464 pages | File size: 72.Mb
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Most Helpful Colonial Americans if they could afford it liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension By the mid eighteenth century Americans had developed their own version of the bourgeois English countryseat a class of estate equally distinct in social function and form from townhouses rural plantat Reinberger and McLean have succeeded in illuminating the nature and significance of a specific building type in colonial America the country house or seat focusing on those around the city of Philadelphia The scholarship is extremely sound the documentati
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