Isbn: 9781477334171 - rewriting american architecture: contesting the myths of national culture (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 384 pages. 7.00x1.20x10.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: NEW.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A critical reassessment of nineteenth-century American architecture that uncovers how race, settler colonialism, and contested national identities shaped the built environment and its historiography.Rewriting American Architecture offers a revisionist riposte to the canonical story of nineteenth-century American architecture. Drawing on new archival research and revisionist historiography, the essays in this volume reveal how American architecture was shaped not by inevitable progress toward a unified national culture but by the turbulent realities of race, labor, settler colonialism, and territorial expansion. Rather than treating architecture as an apolitical aesthetic expression, the contributors expose it as an active arena in which the meanings of nationhood were constructed, contested, and often violently enforced. From Indigenous spatial practices and Black institutional building to transnational exchanges and the racial politics embedded in professionalization, this collection reframes the built environment as central to the competing cultural, political, and geographic claims that defined the United States during this period.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 384 pages. 7.00x1.20x10.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. 2026. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Rewriting American Architecture | Contesting the Myths of National Culture | Charles L Davis (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | University of Texas Press | EAN 9781477334171 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …