Author: Talbot HamlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Greek revival architecture in America
Author: Talbot HamlinGreek Revival America
Author: Roger G. KennedyPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847831845
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A long, loving look at the styles of living and governing fostered by the American Greek Revival, a period that began in the 1820s and flourished until the Civil War. 200 full-color photographs. 50 black-and-white period illustrations.
Americans Interpret the Parthenon
Author: Robert Kent SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Greek Orthodox Church in America
Author: Alexander KitroeffPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.
Greek Revival America
Author: Roger G. KennedyPublisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A long, loving look at the styles of living and governing fostered by the American Greek Revival, a period that began in the 1820s and flourished until the Civil War. 200 full-color photographs. 50 black-and-white period illustrations.
Roots Too
Author: Matthew Frye JacobsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674018983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, whites sought renewed status in the romance of Old World travails and New World fortunes. Ellis Island replaced Plymouth Rock as the touchstone of American nationalism. The entire culture embraced the myth of the indomitable white ethnics—who they were and where they had come from—in literature, film, theater, art, music, and scholarship. The language and symbols of hardworking, self-reliant, and ultimately triumphant European immigrants have exerted tremendous force on political movements and public policy debates from affirmative action to contemporary immigration. In order to understand how white primacy in American life survived the withering heat of the Civil Rights movement and multiculturalism, Matthew Frye Jacobson argues for a full exploration of the meaning of the white ethnic revival and the uneasy relationship between inclusion and exclusion that it has engendered in our conceptions of national belonging.
House Styles in America
Author: James C. MasseyPublisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN: 9780140281125
Category : Architecture, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style -- a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.
The Modern Builder's Guide
Author: Minard LafeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Architect
Author: Asher BenjaminPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Architect : Or, Practical House Carpenter by Asher Benjamin, first published in 1843, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
The American Builder's Companion
Author: Asher BenjaminPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486222365
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The New England architect's work which provides instructions and designs for houses and churches as well as interiors