Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index. |
Contents |
Reading the past : what is architectural history? What is history? / EH Carr ; The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- The authority of the author : biography and the reconstruction of the canon. Biographical dictionary / Sir Howard Colvin ; What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- On classical ground : histories of style. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 / Sir John Summerson ; Art history and class struggle / Nicos Hadjinicolaou -- A class performance : social histories of architecture. Life in the English country house / Mark Girouard ; In search of cultural history / EH Gombrich --The illusion of inclusion : the guidebook and historic architecture. The buildings of England / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ; The Blue Guide / Roland Barthes -- Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender. Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denise Scott Brown ; Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman. |
Summary |
Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and social/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Architecture -- Historiography.
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Architecture -- Historiography. |
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Architecture -- England -- 18th century.
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Architecture. |
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England. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1700-1799 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Arnold, Dana. Reading architectural history. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415250498 0415250501 (DLC) 2002072701 (OCoLC)49936181 |
ISBN |
0203164474 (electronic book) |
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9780203164471 (electronic book) |
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0203258614 |
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9780203258613 |
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128005669X |
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9781280056697 |
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0415250498 (Cloth) |
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0415250501 (Paper) |
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9786610056699 |
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6610056692 |
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