Back of the Big House
Title | Back of the Big House PDF eBook |
Author | John Michael Vlach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn
Title | Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Hubka |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781584653721 |
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
The Big House
Title | The Big House PDF eBook |
Author | George Howe Colt |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2012-08-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439124914 |
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Creating the Not So Big House
Title | Creating the Not So Big House PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Susanka |
Publisher | Taunton Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | House & Home |
ISBN | 1561586056 |
Offers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.
Big House on the Prairie
Title | Big House on the Prairie PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Eason |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2017-03-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 022641034X |
Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."
Back of the Big House
Title | Back of the Big House PDF eBook |
Author | John Michael Vlach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Masters of the Big House
Title | Masters of the Big House PDF eBook |
Author | William Kauffman Scarborough |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2006-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807131555 |
William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.