Town house : architecture and material life in the early American city, 1780-1830 /
In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society....
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Urban settings: houses and housing in the early American city
- The merchant family's house
- The burgher's dilemma
- The servants' quarter
- The widow's dower
- The shipwright's lodgings
- A traveler's portmanteau
- A poetical city.