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Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000.

Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000.

$39.95

Archer, John.

Cl. Minneapolis, 2005

Book ID: 66469

Archer suggests that the endurance of the ideal suburban house is deeply rooted in the notions of privacy, property, and selfhood that were introduced in late seventeenth-century England and became the foundation of the American nation and identity.

470 pp., 39 halftones, 79 line drawings.