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African Architectural Transference To The South Carolina Low Country, 1700-1880, Fritz Hamer
African Architectural Transference To The South Carolina Low Country, 1700-1880, Fritz Hamer
Faculty and Staff Publications
There is growing historical and archaeological evidence that African style housing was an integral part of slave communities on plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Besides the "shotgun" house, other African house forms were built in North America before descendants of African slaves became acculturated to western construction techniques. The rarity of historical and archaeological evidence of these structures can be attributed to the culture bias of early white observers and the poor preservation of these impermanent structures in the archaeological record.
Book Review: The New Switzerland Problems And Policies, Nicole Butz
Book Review: The New Switzerland Problems And Policies, Nicole Butz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This volume, edited by Rolf Kieser and Kurt R. Spillmann, consists of twentyeight essays written by a group of Swiss scholars and officials. Originally intended as a new edition of the 1978 volume Modern Switzerland (edited by J. Murray Luck, Lukas F. Burckhardt, and Hans Haug), The New Switzerland nonetheless differs significantly in content and perspective from its earlier counterpart. As noted by the editors in the preface, the book does not attempt to provide its readers with a comprehensive account of Switzerland; rather, it seeks to inform a broad international audience through "a discussion of the present and future …
Review Essay: Frantzen, Allen J. And John D. Niles, Eds. Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson
Review Essay: Frantzen, Allen J. And John D. Niles, Eds. Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson
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Frantzen, Allen J., and John D. Niles, eds. Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1997. 242 pp., illustrations. $49.95.