Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America
Author: James D. Kornwolf
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801859861

Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845

Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300030464

Looks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization

Home Life in Colonial Days

Home Life in Colonial Days
Author: Alice Morse Earle
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Alice Morse Earle's 'Home Life in Colonial Days' takes readers on a journey through the daily lives of Colonial Americans. Earle's meticulous research, coupled with her elegant writing style, makes this an engaging and informative read. The book covers everything from the shapes and sizes of Colonial homes to the production of clothes and tools, and everything in between. Earle's descriptions of the unending labor required to survive during that time serve as a humbling reminder of how far we have come.