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Author Topp, Leslie, 1969- author.

Title Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / Leslie Topp.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Buildings, landscapes, and societies
Buildings, landscapes, and societies.
Summary "Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The free institution -- Regions, nationalism, and the asylum as a political project -- "A white city shimmering" : the rhetorical heightening of control -- Utopia in process in Vienna's hinterland -- Spaces -- Boundaries.
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Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Europe, Central -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Central Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Europe, Central -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Hospital architecture -- Europe, Central -- History -- 19th century.
Hospital architecture.
Hospital architecture -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Topp, Leslie, 1969- Freedom and the cage. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017] 9780271077109 (DLC) 2016034219 (OCoLC)958371031
ISBN 9780271079226 (electronic book)
0271079223 (electronic book)
9780271077109
0271077107