The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series) - Hardcover

Guillery, Peter

 
9780300102383: The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300102380 ISBN 13: 9780300102383
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

London’s modest eighteenth-century houses―those inhabited by artisans and laborers in the unseen parts of Georgian London―can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era’s urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population.

Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialization (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the eighteenth-century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence.



Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and in association with English Heritage

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Peter Guillery is a senior investigator for English Heritage.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300102380
ISBN 13 
9780300102383
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
360
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