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Title Foreign trends in American gardens : a history of exchange, adaptation, and reception / edited by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. British influences. The American translation of the picturesque / Emily T. Cooperman and John Dixon Hunt ; Studying peculiarities / Andrew Jackson Downing's multifaceted adaptation of British principles to American practices and ways of life / Caren Yglesias -- pt. 2. French exchanges. "These beautiful pleasure-grounds of death" : nineteenth-century America's adaptation of the Parisian rural cemetery / Jill Sinclair ; Of monarchical climates and republican soil : French plants and American gardens in the Revolutionary Era / Elizabeth Hyde -- pt. 3. The reception of the Italian garden in America. The American colonial garden and the garden of the country place era : the role of ancient and early modern Italy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto ; Camera Bella : the photograph and the perception of the Italian garden in America / Rebecca Warren Davidson -- pt. 4. The American identity as perceived by the Americans and the foreigners. Considering fitness and fairness : the search for American identity in garden and forest / Eric McDonald ; Growing home : Thomas Affleck, immigrant and advisor in the American South / James Schissel ; A European "northerner" in California : Richard Neutra as a landscape architect / Johannes Stoffler -- pt. 5. The pull of the Orient. Political landscapes : Japanese gardens at San Francisco's World's Fairs of 1915 and 1939 / Kendall H. Brown ; The garden network : George Rogers Hall's horticultural activism / Sara A. Butler.
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Subject Gardens -- United States -- Foreign influences -- History.
Gardens.
United States.
History.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Foreign trends in American gardens. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016 9780813939131 0813939135 (DLC) 2016015326 (OCoLC)958585762
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