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An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
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Lewis Burwell II designed Fairfield plantation in Gloucester County to be the most sophisticated and successful architectural and agricultural effort in late seventeenth-century Virginia. He envisioned a physical framework with the intent to control the world around him so that he might profit from growing tobacco, while raising his family's status to the highest in the colony through the display of wealth and knowledge and the enslavement of both Africans and the natural surroundings. The landscape he envisioned contrasted with those of the enslaved Africans he purchased and put to work in the fields and buildings surrounding his '1694 brick …
Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
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This dissertation charts the contested political and cultural meaning of urbanization in the emerging plantation societies of Virginia and Maryland. Scholars have long asserted that Chesapeake planters' desire for lucre led them to patent huge tracts of land, disperse across the landscape, and completely dismiss urban development. However, through 17 pieces of legislation, colonists, governors, and London administrators actually encouraged towns in the Chesapeake through the seventeenth century. Despite the environmental and agricultural constraints of tidewater tobacco, both colonies wrestled with a perceived need for towns, which consistently appeared to represent the best means to engineer the region's political economy …
"More Than Shelter": Community, Identity, And Spatial Politics In San Francisco Public Housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
"More Than Shelter": Community, Identity, And Spatial Politics In San Francisco Public Housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
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During the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and journalists documented the failures of the public housing program in the United States with a range of studies focusing on the Midwest and East. Problems such as displacement, criminal activity, high vacancy rates, racial segregation, and the isolation of tenants informed critiques of federally-subsidized housing for low-income families. These aspects contributed to the national image of "the projects" as high-rise ghettos, populated primarily by African Americans, and located in run-down areas. Public housing with its position at the crossroads of national, state, and local politics and policies as well as …
Colonial Williamsburg's Slave Auction Re-Enactment: Controversy, African American History And Public Memory, Erin Krutko Devlin
Colonial Williamsburg's Slave Auction Re-Enactment: Controversy, African American History And Public Memory, Erin Krutko Devlin
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No abstract provided.
Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp
Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp
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No abstract provided.
African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
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No abstract provided.
Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells
Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells
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This study is an attempt to discern what eighteenth-century houses--their forms, dimensions, internal organization, and external settings--have to contribute to scholarly understanding of colonial Virginia's society, economy, and culture.;Historic Virginia houses usually were built more recently than traditional scholars and popular writers have supposed, and standing eighteenth-century houses are, almost without exception, far larger and finer than the dwellings most colonial Virginians inhabited. Yet even lightly constructed and shabbily finished houses stood at the center of a complex of buildings where most of the planter's household and agricultural work was performed. Thus eighteenth-century Virginia houses were more mundane and unpretentious …
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect Of An Age, Alexander O. Boulton
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect Of An Age, Alexander O. Boulton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
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Inspired by the concept of culture as expressed in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, this dissertation traces the roots of modern perceptions of slavery and race by analyzing three sites each of which is associated with a distinct cultural pattern and social ideology. The first, Penshurst in Kent England is described as feudal, organic, vernacular, and popular. The second, Westover in tidewater Virginia is classical, rational, and elite. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the Virginia piedmont, the third site, is described as romantic, liberal, and bourgeois. It is only at this third site, the locus for a distinctly modern family type, …
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Churchyard Enclosure Around The Elizabeth City Parish Church Of 1728: With Systemic And Proxemic Considerations, Anne W. H. Garland
The Churchyard Enclosure Around The Elizabeth City Parish Church Of 1728: With Systemic And Proxemic Considerations, Anne W. H. Garland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hendrik Van Paesschen, Architect Of The Northern European Renaissance, John Fitzhugh Millar
Hendrik Van Paesschen, Architect Of The Northern European Renaissance, John Fitzhugh Millar
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Work Of Clarence S Stein, 1919-1939, Prudence Anne Phillimore
The Work Of Clarence S Stein, 1919-1939, Prudence Anne Phillimore
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No abstract provided.
Mr Rockefeller's Other City: Background And Response To The Restoration Of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1927-1939, Roy Brien Varnado
Mr Rockefeller's Other City: Background And Response To The Restoration Of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1927-1939, Roy Brien Varnado
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.